Parapontoporia

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]It is related to the possibly extinct Baiji.[3]

Parapontoporia
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Pliocene
Reconstruction of Parapontoporia pacifica (top) with the fossil porpoise Piscolithax tedfordi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Lipotidae
Genus: †Parapontoporia
Barnes (1984)
Species
  • P. pacifica
  • P. sternbergi
  • P. wilsoni
Skull (left), along with the skull of Semirostrum.

References
  1. Barnes, L.G. (July 1984). "Fossil odontocetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Almejas Formation, Isla Cedros, Mexico". PaleoBios. 42: 1–46.
  2. The Paleobiology Database
  3. Boessenecker, Robert W.; Poust, Ashley W. (2015). "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14754983". Palaeontology. 58 (3): 489–496. doi:10.1111/pala.12153. External link in |title= (help)


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