Lipotes vexillifer Miller 1918 (Chinese river dolphin)
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.
Mammalia - Cetacea - Lipotidae
Full reference: G. S. Miller. 1918. A new river-dolphin from China. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 68(2):1-12
Belongs to Lipotes according to P. Hershkovitz 1966
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Brownell and Herald 1972, Jefferson 2021, Mead and Brownell 2005, Miller 1918, Rice 1998 and Scheffer and Rice 1963
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 218293. Its type locality is Tungting Lake, which is in a Holocene lacustrine - large horizon in China.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.