Prepomatodelphis korneuburgensis Barnes 2002 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae

Full reference: L. G. Barnes. 2002. An Early Miocene long-snouted marine platanistid dolphin (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Korneuburg Basin (Austria). Beiträge Paläontologie 27:407-418

Belongs to Prepomatodelphis according to O. Lambert et al. 2008

See also Barnes 2002 and Barnes 2006

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMW 2002z0001/0000, a partial skull. Its type locality is Teiritzberg, which is in a MN 5 marine sandstone in the Laa Formation of Austria.

Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution: found only at Teiritzberg

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