Phocaenopsis mantelli Huxley 1859 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Full reference: T. H. Huxley. 1859. On a fossil bird and a fossil cetacean from New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 15:670-677

Belongs to Phocaenopsis according to R. E. Fordyce and C. D. Roberts 2009

See also Fordyce 1980, Fordyce 1981, Fordyce 1991, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Huxley 1859, Trouessart 1898 and Trouessart 1904

Sister taxon: Phocaenopsis scheynensis

Type specimen: BMNH M11091, a limb element (right humerus). Its type locality is Awamoa Creek, which is in an Altonian coastal horizon in the Mount Harris Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Awamoa Creek

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