Pontoporiidae

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Pontoporiidae
Temporal range: Aquitanian–Recent
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La Plata Dolphin, Pontoporia blainvillei
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Superfamily: Inioidea
Family: Pontoporiidae
Gray, 1870
Genera

Auroracetus
Brachydelphis
Piscorhynchus
Pontistes
Pontoporia
Protophocaena
Samaydelphis
Scaldiporia
Stenasodelphis

Pontoporiidae is a family of toothed whales, containing the extant genus Pontoporia , and ten extinct genera. [1] Pontoporia contains the sole extant species, the La Plata dolphin, which is endemic to South America.

References

  1. "Paleobiology Database PBDB".