†Australithax intermedia Muizon 1988 (porpoise)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
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
Belongs to Australithax according to C. Muizon 1988
See also Cozzuol 1996
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is El Jahuay, which is in a Tortonian shoreface siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution: found only at El Jahuay
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