†Pseudorca yokoyamai Matsumoto 1926 (false killer whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1926. On some fossil cetaceans of Japan. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University Second Series (Geology) 10(1):17-27
Belongs to Pseudorca according to H. Matsumoto 1926
Sister taxa: Pseudorca crassidens, Pseudorca yuanliensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Hommoku, which is in a Calabrian marine horizon in the Sanuki Formation of Japan
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (3 collections)
• Pliocene of Japan (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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