Blunt-snouted dolphin
Blunt-snouted dolphin Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Delphinidae |
Subfamily: | Orcininae |
Genus: | †Platalearostrum |
Species: | †P. hoekmani
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Binomial name | |
†Platalearostrum hoekmani & , 2010
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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.
Categories:
- Prehistoric toothed whales
- Oceanic dolphins
- Fossil taxa described in 2010
- Pliocene cetaceans
- Pliocene mammals of Europe
- Pleistocene cetaceans
- Pleistocene mammals of Europe
- Prehistoric cetacean stubs