Subfamily Lipotinae Barnes 1985 (toothed whale)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Full reference: L. G. Barnes. 1985. Fossil pontoporiid dolphins (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Pacific Coast of North America. Contributions in Science 363:1-34
Parent taxon: Pontoporiidae according to R. E. Fordyce et al. 1995
See also Barnes 1985 and Fordyce and Barnes 1994
Sister taxa: Auroracetus, Brachydelphininae, Brachydelphis, Piscorhynchus, Pliopontos, Pontistes, Pontoporia, Pontoporiinae, Protophocaena, Samaydelphis, Scaldiporia, Stenasodelphis
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Lipotinae in the database