Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Alternative combinations: Archaeocetus focki, Archaeocetus fockii, Beluga fockii, Delphinapterus (Pachypleurus) fockii, Pristinocetus fockii
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372
Belongs to Lissodelphis according to M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell 1997
See also Brandt 1873, Kudrin and Tatarinov 1966, Macarovici 1944, Palmer 1904, Sinzow 1898, Studer 1898, Trouessart 1898 and Trouessart 1904
Sister taxa: Lissodelphis borealis, Lissodelphis nordmanni, Lissodelphis peronii
Subtaxa: Lissodelphis fockii major Lissodelphis fockii minor
Type specimen: Its type locality is Stavropol, which is in a Sarmatian marine horizon in the Russian Federation
Distribution:
• Miocene of Moldova (2 collections), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (1)
• Neogene of Germany (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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