Alternative combination: Phocaenopsis cornutus
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 Pithanodelphis according to S. J. Godfrey and O. Lambert 2023
See also Abel 1905, Barnes 1985, Dawson 1996, Du Bus 1872, Ichishima et al. 1995, Peredo et al. 2018, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of United States (2: Maryland)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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