Full reference: C. Muizon. 1988. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Troisieme partie: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Miocene. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations (78)1-244
Parent taxon: Delphinida according to C. Peredo et al. 2018
See also Benton 1993, Cozzuol 1996, Dawson 1996, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler et al. 2011, Guo and Kohno 2023, Ichishima et al. 1995, Kazár et al. 2004, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1988, Sepkoski 2002, Uhen et al. 2008 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: Anacharsis, Brevirostrodelphis, Cammackacetus, Delphinavus, Delphinoidea, Hadrodelphis, Herbeinodelphis, Inioidea, Kentriodontidae, Kentriodontoidea, Liolithax, Lipotidae, Lipotoidea, Macrokentriodon, Miminiacetus, Miodelphis, Monodontoidae, Pictodelphis, Pithanodelphis, Platylithax, Tagicetus, Westmorelandelphis
Subtaxa: Atocetus iquensis Atocetus nasalis
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Peru (1 collection), United States (7: California, North Carolina)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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