Brujadelphis
| Brujadelphis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Superfamily: | Inioidea |
| Genus: | †Brujadelphis Lambert, Bianucci, Urbina, and Geisler, 2017 |
| Species: | †B. ankylorostris |
| Binomial name | |
| †Brujadelphis ankylorostris Lambert, Bianucci, Urbina, and Geisler, 2017 | |
Brujadelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin-like cetacean from the Late Miocene epoch (Serravallian-early Tortonian) of present-day Peru. The type species is B. ankylorostris, recovered from the Pisco Formation.[1]
References
- ↑ Lambert O, Bianucci G, Urbina M, Geisler JH., 2017. A new inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from the Miocene of Peru and the origin of modern dolphin and porpoise families. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179:919–946. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12479.
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