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

Show more details