Blunt-snouted dolphin

Blunt-snouted dolphin; Temporal range: Middle Pliocene to Early Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Delphinidae
Subfamily:	Orcininae
Genus:	†Platalearostrum
Species:	†P. hoekmani
Binomial name
	†Platalearostrum hoekmani; & , 2010

Model head

The blunt-snouted dolphin (Platalearostrum hoekmani, "'s spoon-rostrum") is a prehistoric pilot whale known from a single specimen (NMR-9991-00005362), consisting of a partial rostrum, partial maxilla, partial premaxilla, and partial vomer. The fossil was discovered by Albert Hoekman on board a fishing trawler in the North Sea in 2008 and described in 2010 by and . The blunt-snouted dolphin is believed to have had a balloonlike structure atop its rostrum and is estimated to have lived during the middle Pliocene to early Pleistocene.^[1]

References[]

^ Klaas Post & Erwin J.O. Kompanje (2010). "A new dolphin (Cetacea, Delphinidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the North Sea". Deinsea. 14: 1–13. ISSN 0923-9308. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-11-22.

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[post10-1] Klaas Post & Erwin J.O. Kompanje (2010). "A new dolphin (Cetacea, Delphinidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the North Sea". Deinsea. 14: 1–13. ISSN 0923-9308. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-11-22.

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