Urkudelphis

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Urkudelphis
Temporal range: Late Oligocene (Deseadan)
~28–23  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Genus: Urkudelphis
Tanaka et al. 2017
Species:
U. chawpipacha
Binomial name
Urkudelphis chawpipacha
Tanaka et al. 2017

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.

References

  1. 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. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1288380T. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188380 . PMC   5737981 . PMID   29261688.
  2. Urkudelphis at Fossilworks.org