Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Parent taxon: Globicephalinae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Aguirre-Fernández et al. 2009, Bianucci 2005, Bianucci et al. 2022, Buchholtz and Schur 2004, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Kasuya 1973, LeDuc et al. 1999, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Murakami et al. 2014, Perrin et al. 2013, Rice 1998 and Vidal 1991
Sister taxa: Astadelphis, Feresa, Globicephala, Globidelphinidae, Grampidae, Grampus, Orcaella, Platalearostrum, Protoglobicephala, Pseudorca, Rododelphis
Subtaxa: Peponocephala electra
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Brazil (1), India (1), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Tanzania (1), United States (1: Florida), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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