†Imerodelphis thabagarii Mchedlidze 1959 (toothed whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Full reference: G. A. Mchedlidze. 1959. A fossil dolphin (Imerodelphis thabagarii) from Sarmatian in the vicinity of Zestafoni. Soob. Akad. Nauk Gruz. SSR 23(6):687-694
Belongs to Imerodelphis according to P. Gol'din et al. 2020
See also Grigorescu and Kazár 2006 and Mchedlidze 1959
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IPB no. 1, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Kvaliti Village, which is in a Serravallian marine horizon in Georgia.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Georgia (1 collection), Ukraine (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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