Phocaenopsis scheynensis Du Bus 1872

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Alternative combination: Acrodelphis scheynensis

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 Phocaenopsis according to E. Kazár and O. Hampe 2014

See also Abel 1905, Du Bus 1872, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Vanden Broeck 1874

Sister taxon: Phocaenopsis mantelli

Type specimen: Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium

Distribution:

• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection)

• Miocene of the Netherlands (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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