Pliodelphis
Small Pliocene Dolphin
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Pliodelphis (meaning "Pliocene dolphin") is a genus of small delphinid (oceanic dolphin) cetaceans that lived in Belgium during the Early Miocene epoch, about 5 million to 4.4 million years ago. The genus contains the type species Pliodelphis doelensis, named and described in 2021 based on a partial skull recovered from the littoral Kattendijk Formation.[1]
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| Pliodelphis Temporal range: Early Pliocene (Zanclean), | |
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| Holotype skull in dorsal view | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Superfamily: | Delphinoidea |
| Family: | Delphinidae |
| Genus: | †Pliodelphis Belluzo & Lambert, 2021 |
| Type species | |
| †Pliodelphis doelensis Belluzo & Lambert, 2021 | |
