Haborodelphis
Haborodelphis Temporal range: Early Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Monodontidae |
Genus: | †Haborodelphis Ichishima et al., 2018 |
Species: | †H. japonicus |
Binomial name | |
†Haborodelphis japonicus Ichishima et al., 2018 |
Haborodelphis is an extinct genus of beluga-like odontocete cetacean known from the Early Pliocene from the north-west Pacific. It was first named by Hiroto Ichishima and colleagues in 2018 and the type species is H. japonicus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Ichishima, Hiroto; Furusawa, Hitoshi; Tachibana, Makino; Kimura, Masaichi (2019). "First monodontid cetacean (Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the early Pliocene of the north-western Pacific Ocean". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (2): 323–342. Bibcode:2019PPal....5..323I. doi:10.1002/spp2.1244.