Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Alternative combination: Priscodelphinus morckhoviensis
Full reference: B. Du Bus. 1872. Mammiferes nouveaux du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Letteres et des Beaux-Arts 34:491-509
Belongs to Schizodelphis according to S. J. Godfrey and O. Lambert 2023
See also Abel 1902, Benoit et al. 2011, Du Bus 1872, Lambert 2004, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: Aulacodelphis, Schizodelphis barnesi, Schizodelphis bogatshowi, Schizodelphis compressus, Schizodelphis planus, Schizodelphis squalodontoides, Schizodelphis sulcatus
Type specimen: USNM 187621 (occipital condyles). Its type locality is Anvers, Berchem Fm., Antwerp Sands, which is in a Langhian/Serravallian open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Berchem Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Belgium (2 collections), United States (5: Maryland)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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