Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Belongs to Lagenodelphis according to T. A. Jefferson 2021
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Bolaños and Villaroel-Marin 2003, Hershkovitz 1966, Jefferson and Leatherwood 1994, Mead and Brownell 2005, Perrin et al. 2013, Rice 1998 and Scheffer and Rice 1963
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BMNH 1895.5.9.1, a skeleton. Its type locality is Lutong River, which is in a Holocene estuary/bay horizon in Malaysia.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), India (1), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Tanzania (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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