Alternative combinations: Delphinus mortezelensis, Eudelphis mortselensis, Scaldicetus mortezelensis, Scaldicetus mortselensis
Full reference: B. Du Bus. 1872. Mammiferes nouveaux du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Letteres et des Beaux-Arts 34:491-509
Belongs to Eudelphis according to J. Velez-Juarbe et al. 2015
See also Abel 1905, Du Bus 1872, Hampe 2006, Kazár 2002, Lambert 2008, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IRSNB M.523, a partial skull (partial skull with two teeth). Its type locality is Vieux-Dieu, which is in a Langhian/Serravallian open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Berchem Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Belgium (1 collection), Italy (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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