Pliodelphis
Pliodelphis Temporal range: Early Pliocene (Zanclean),
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Holotype skull in dorsal view | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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
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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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