Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Full reference: O. Lambert. 2005. Review of the Miocene long-snouted dolphin Priscodelphinus cristatus Du Bus, 1872 (Cetacea, Odontoceti) and phylogeny among eurhinodelphinids. Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Sciences de la Terre 75:211-235
Parent taxon: Eurhinodelphinidae according to S. J. Godfrey et al. 2017
See also Berta 2017, Bianucci and Varola 2014, Geisler et al. 2011, Godfrey and Lambert 2023, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Lambert 2005, Lambert and Goolaerts 2022, Marx et al. 2016, Uhen et al. 2008 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: Ceterhinops, Eurhinodelphis, Eurhinodelphis salentinus, Iniopsis, Mycteriacetus, Phocaenopsis, Schizodelphis, Vanbreenia, Ziphiodelphis
Subtaxa: Xiphiacetus bossi Xiphiacetus cristatus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Belgium (5), Italy (2), the Netherlands (3), United States (24: Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia)
Total: 36 collections including 42 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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