Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae

Full reference: G. Pilleri and H. J. Siber. 1989. Piscorhynchus aenigmaticus, ein neuer Miozaner Zahnwal aus der Pisco-Formation Perus. Beitrage zur Palaontologie der cetaceen Perus 195-203

Parent taxon: Pontoporiidae according to O. Lambert 2011

See also Cozzuol 1996, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Pilleri and Siber 1989

Sister taxa: Auroracetus, Brachydelphininae, Brachydelphis, Lipotinae, Pliopontos, Pontistes, Pontoporia, Pontoporiinae, Protophocaena, Samaydelphis, Scaldiporia, Stenasodelphis

Subtaxa: Piscorhynchus aenigmaticus

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Aguada de Lomas (Miocene of Peru)

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