Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Full reference: G. Bianucci. 1996. The Odontoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from Italian Pliocene systematics and phylogenesis of Delphinidae. Palaeontologrphia Italia 83:73-167
Parent taxon: Globicephalinae according to G. Bianucci et al. 2022
See also Berta 2017, Bianucci 1996, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Marx et al. 2016, Murakami et al. 2014 and Ormezzano and Lanzetti 2014
Sister taxa: Feresa, Globicephala, Globidelphinidae, Grampidae, Grampus, Orcaella, Peponocephala, Platalearostrum, Protoglobicephala, Pseudorca, Rododelphis
Subtaxa: Astadelphis gastaldii
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: South Carolina collection)
• Pliocene of Italy (3), Spain (2)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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