Lipotes Miller 1918 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Lipotidae

Full reference: G. S. Miller. 1918. A new river-dolphin from China. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 68(2):1-12

Parent taxon: Lipotidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1985, Berta 2017, Brownell and Herald 1972, de Muizon 1988, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Hershkovitz 1966, Kasuya 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Miller 1923, Muizon 1984, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Simpson 1945 and Winge 1921

Sister taxa: Eolipotes, Parapontoporia

Subtaxa: Lipotes vexillifer

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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