Mycteriacetus

Mycteriacetus
Temporal range: Burdigalian, ~18.78 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Infraorder:Cetacea
Family:†Eurhinodelphinidae
Genus:†Mycteriacetus
Lambert, 2004
Type species
†Mycteriacetus bellunensis
(Pilleri, 1985)

Mycteriacetus is an extinct genus of dolphin from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of northeastern Italy. The type species is M. bellunensis.

Etymology

Mycteriacetus is named after the Yellow-billed stork (Mycteria ibis) because the bill of that species is as long as the rostrum of Mycteriacetus.[1]

References

  1. ↑ O. Lambert. 2004. Systematic revision of the Miocene long-snouted dolphin Eurhinodelphis longirostris Du Bus, 1872. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 74:147-174.


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