Phocoenoides Andrews 1911 (porpoise)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae

Alternative spelling: Phocaenoides

Parent taxon: Phocoenidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1977, Barnes 1984, Barnes 1985, Colpaert et al. 2015, de Muizon 1988, Fajardo-Mellor et al. 2006, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler et al. 2011, Jefferson 1988, Kasuya 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963 and Simpson 1945

Sister taxa: Archaeophocaena, Australithax, Brabocetus, Haborophocoena, Lomacetus, Loxolithax, Miophocaena, Neophocaena, Numataphocoena, Phocoena, Phocoeninae, Phocoenoidinae, Piscolithax, Pterophocaena, Salumiphocaena, Semirostrum, Septemtriocetus

Subtaxa: Phocoenoides dalli

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Type: Phocoenoides dalli

Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections), United States (4: Alaska, California)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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