Urkudelphis

Urkudelphis
Temporal range: Late Oligocene (Deseadan)
~28–23 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Infraorder:Cetacea
Superfamily:Platanistoidea
Genus:†Urkudelphis
Marx et al. 2017
Type species
Urkudelphis chawpipacha
Marx et al. 2017

Urkudelphis is an extinct genus of cetacean.[1] The type species, Urkudelphis chawpipacha, was described in 2017 based on fossils found in the Dos Bocas Formation of Ecuador.[2] It was a type of river dolphin.

References

  1. ↑ Yoshihiro Tanaka; Juan Abella; Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández; Maria Gregori; R. Ewan Fordyce (2017). "A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador". PLoS ONE. 12 (12): e0188380. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188380. PMC 5737981. PMID 29261688.
  2. ↑ Urkudelphis at Fossilworks.org
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