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Parapontoporia

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Parapontoporia
Temporal range: Late Miocene–Pliocene
Reconstruction of Parapontoporia pacifica (top) with the fossil porpoise Piscolithax tedfordi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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.

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]

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. {{cite journal}}: External link in |title= (help)


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