Pontoporia blainvillei Gervais and d'Orbigny 1844

Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae

Alternative combinations: Delphinus blainvillei, Pontoporia blainvilli, Pontoporia blainvillii, Stenodelphis blainvillei

Synonyms: Pontoporia tenuirostris Malm 1871, Stenodelphis tenuirostris Malm 1871

Full reference: P. Gervais and M. A. d'Orbigny. 1844. Mammalogie. Societe Philomatique de Paris 1844:38-40

Belongs to Pontoporia according to T. A. Jefferson 2021

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Ameghino 1889, Bergqvist et al. 1999, Geisler et al. 2011, Gervais and d'Orbigny 1844, Gondar 1966, Gray 1850, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Gray 1871, Gray 1846, Hershkovitz 1961, Hershkovitz 1966, Mead and Brownell 2005, Moreno 1888, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Scott 1873, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912, Uhen et al. 2008 and Van Beneden and Gervais 1880

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

  • Pontoporia blainvillei: MNHM unnumbered specimen, a skull (skull). Its type locality is Rio de La Plata, which is in a Holocene fluvial horizon in Uruguay.
  • Pontoporia tenuirostris:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (5 collections), Uruguay (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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