Heterodelphis klinderi Brandt 1873 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae

Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372

Belongs to Heterodelphis according to E. Kazár 2006

See also Brandt 1873, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Van Beneden and Gervais 1880

Sister taxa: Heterodelphis croatica, Heterodelphis leiodontus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Nikolaev, which is in a Tortonian shallow subtidal horizon in the Chersonian Formation of Ukraine

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Nikolaev

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