Piscolithax longirostris Muizon 1983 (porpoise)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1983. Un nouveau Phocoenidae (Cetacea) du Pliocene inferieur du Perou. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Paris Serie II (296)1203-1206

Belongs to Piscolithax according to L. Fajardo-Mellor et al. 2006

See also Muizon 1983

Sister taxa: Piscolithax boreios, Piscolithax tedfordi

Type specimen: SAS 933, a skull. Its type locality is Sud-Sacaco West (SAS) horizon, which is in a Messinian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.

Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Peru (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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