Prepomatodelphis Barnes 2002 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae

Full reference: L. G. Barnes. 2002. An Early Miocene long-snouted marine platanistid dolphin (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Korneuburg Basin (Austria). Beiträge Paläontologie 27:407-418

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

See also Barnes 2002, Barnes 2006 and Lambert et al. 2008

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Prepomatodelphis korneuburgensis

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Type: Prepomatodelphis korneuburgensis

Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution: found only at Teiritzberg (Miocene of Austria)

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