Allodelphis pratti Wilson 1935 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Allodelphinidae

Full reference: L. E. Wilson. 1935. Miocene marine mammals from the Bakersfield region, California. The Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 4:1-143

Belongs to Allodelphis according to A. Boersma and N. D. Pyenson 2016

See also Barnes 1977, Barnes 2006, Barnes and Reynolds 2009, Kimura and Barnes 2016, Mitchell and Tedford 1973, Uhen et al. 2008 and Wilson 1935

Sister taxon: Allodelphis woodburnei

Type specimen: YMP 13408, a skull. Its type locality is Woody, southwest, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Jewett Formation of California.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Woody, southwest

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