Proinia patagonica True 1909 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: F. W. True. 1909. A new genus of fossil cetaceans from the Santa Cruz Territory, Patagonia; and description of a mandible and vertebrae of Prosqualodon. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 52:441-455

Belongs to Proinia according to C. M. Gaetán et al. 2025

See also Cozzuol 2010, de Muizon 1988, Kellogg 1942 and True 1909

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: YPM-PU 15459, a partial skull. Its type locality is Darwin Station, which is in an Aquitanian marine horizon in the Monte Leon Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Darwin Station

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