Name
Isthminia.
Phonetic
Ist-me-ne-ah.
Named By
N. D. Pyenson, J. Velez-Juarbe, C. S. Gutstein, H. Little, D. Vigil & A. O'Dea - 2015.
Classification
Chordata, mamamlia, Artiodacyla, Cetacea, Iniidae.
Diet
Piscivore.
Species
I. panamensis
Size
About 2.85 meters long.
Known locations
Panama - Chagres Formation.
Time Period
Late Miocene.
Fossil representation
Partial skull and partial post cranial skeleton.
Isthminia is a genus of river dolphin that lived in Central America during the Miocene.
- Isthminia panamensis, a new fossil inioid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Chagres Formation of Panama and the evolution of ‘river dolphins’ in the Americas. - PeerJ 3:e1227. - N. D. Pyenson, J. Velez-Juarbe, C. S. Gutstein, H. Little, D. Vigil & A. O’Dea - 2015.
