Parapontoporia
| Parapontoporia Temporal range: Late Miocene–Pliocene | |
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| Reconstruction of Parapontoporia pacifica (top) with the fossil porpoise Piscolithax tedfordi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Eutheria |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Odontoceti |
| Superfamily: | Platanistoidea |
| Family: | Lipotidae |
| Genus: | Parapontoporia |
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Skull (left), along with the skull of Semirostrum.
Parapontoporia is an extinct genus of dolphin that lived off the Californian coast from the Late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the Pliocene.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Barnes, L.G. (July 1984). "Fossil odontocetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Almejas Formation, Isla Cedros, Mexico". PaleoBios 42: 1–46.
- ↑ The Paleobiology Database
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