Brujadelphis

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Brujadelphis
Temporal range: Middle Miocene (Laventan)
~13.6–11.6  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Brujadelphis
Lambert et al. 2017
Species:
B. ankylorostris
Binomial name
Brujadelphis ankylorostris
Lambert et al. 2017

Brujadelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin-like cetaceans of uncertain family placement from the Late Miocene epoch (Serravallian) of present-day Peru. The type species is Brujadelphis ankylorostris, recovered from the Pisco Formation. [1]

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References

  1. Lambert et al., 2017

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