Haborodelphis
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| Haborodelphis Temporal range: Early Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Monodontidae |
| Genus: | †Haborodelphis Ichishima et al., 2018 |
| Species: | †H. japonicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Haborodelphis japonicus Ichishima et al., 2018 | |
Haborodelphis is an extinct genus of beluga-like odontocete cetacean known from the Early Pliocene from the north-west Pacific. It was first named by Hiroto Ichishima and colleagues in 2018 and the type species is H. japonicus.[1]
The type fossil was found in the Embetsu Formation in Haboro, Japan.[1] There is only one known specimen as of 2021.[2]
