Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Alternative spellings: Feresia, Orca (Feresa)
Parent taxon: Globicephalinae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Aguirre-Fernández et al. 2009, Bianucci 2005, Buchholtz and Schur 2004, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Gray 1870, Gray 1870, Kasuya 1973, LeDuc et al. 1999, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Murakami et al. 2014, Palmer 1904, Perrin et al. 2013, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912 and Weber 1928
Sister taxa: Globicephala, Globidelphinidae, Grampidae, Grampus, Orcaella, Peponocephala, Platalearostrum, Protoglobicephala, Pseudorca, Rododelphis
Subtaxa: Feresa attenuata
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Brazil (2), India (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Portugal (1), Tanzania (1), United States (2: Florida, Oregon)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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