Urkudelphis
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.
| Urkudelphis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Superfamily: | Platanistoidea |
| Genus: | †Urkudelphis Tanaka et al. 2017 |
| Type species | |
| Urkudelphis chawpipacha Tanaka et al. 2017 | |
References
- 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.
- Urkudelphis at Fossilworks.org
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