Macrosqualodelphis
Name:
Macrosqualodelphis.
Phonetic: Mak-ro-skwal-o-del-fis.
Named By: G. Bianucci, G. Bosio, E.
Malinverno, C. Muizon, I. M. Villa, M. Urbina &
O. Lambert - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Artiodactyla, Cetacea, Squalodelphinidae.
Species: M. ukupachai
(type).
Diet: Piscivore.
Size: Roughly about 3.5 meters long.
Known locations: Peru - Chilcatay Formation.
Time period: Burdigalian of the Miocene.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and post
cranial skeletal remains.
Macrosqualodelphis
is a genus of river dolphin
that is known to have lived in waters of
Peruvian South America during the Miocene.
Further reading
- A new large squalodelphinid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from Peru
sheds light on the Early Miocene platanistoid disparity and ecology.
- Royal Society Open Science 5(4):172302. - G.
Bianucci, G. Bosio, E. Malinverno, C. Muizon, I. M.
Villa, M. Urbina & O. Lambert - 2018.
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