Australithax intermedia Muizon 1988 (porpoise)

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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