Mammalia - Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Alternative spellings: Brachydelphidae, Brachydelphinae
Full reference: D. W. Rice. 1998. Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution. The Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4:1-231
Parent taxon: Pontoporiidae according to G. Bianucci et al. 2011
See also Bianucci and Landini 2007, Cozzuol 2010, Foekens 2008, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Lambert and Post 2005, Muizon 1988 and Rice 1998
Sister taxa: Auroracetus, Brachydelphis, Lipotinae, Piscorhynchus, Pliopontos, Pontistes, Pontoporia, Pontoporiinae, Protophocaena, Samaydelphis, Scaldiporia, Stenasodelphis
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Malta (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence