Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Alternative combinations: Delphinus (Phocaena) uncidens, Delphinus uncidens, Globicephalus uncidens
Synonyms: Delphinus (Phocaena) orcoides Lankester 1864, Delphinus orcoides Lankester 1864, Globicephalus orcoides Lankester 1864
Full reference: E. R. Lankester. 1864. On new Mammalia from the Red Crag. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14:353-360
Belongs to Globicephala according to H. J. Bernard and S. B. Reilly 1999
See also Cigala-Fulgosi and Pilleri 1985, Lankester 1864, Lydekker 1887, Newton 1891, Trouessart 1898 and Trouessart 1904
Sister taxa: Globicephala etruriae, Globicephala macrorhynchus, Globicephala melas, Globicephalus chinensis, Globicephalus karsteni, Globiocephalus svineval, Globiocephalus guadaloupensis
Type specimens:
- Globicephala uncidens: Its type locality is Woodbridge, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in the Red Crag Formation of the United Kingdom
- Globicephalus orcoides:
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Pliocene of the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene of Italy (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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