Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
Full reference: H. Ichishima and M. Kimura. 2000. A new fossil porpoise (Cetacea; Delphinoidea; Phocoenidae) from the early Pliocene Horokaoshirarika Formation, Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):561-576
Belongs to Numataphocoena according to L. Fajardo-Mellor et al. 2006
See also Ichishima and Kimura 2000 and Tanaka and Ichishima 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NFL 7, a skull. Its type locality is Numata Town, Pliocene, which is in a Zanclean marine sandstone/tuff in the Horokaoshirarika Formation of Japan.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Japan (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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