Parapontoporia

Parapontoporia; Temporal range: Late Miocene–Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Reconstruction of Parapontoporia pacifica (top) with the fossil porpoise
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Lipotidae
Genus:	†Parapontoporia; , 1984
Species
	P. pacifica; P. sternbergi; P. wilsoni;

Skull (left), along with the skull of Semirostrum.

Parapontoporia is an extinct genus of dolphin that lived off the Californian coast from the Late Miocene until the genus' extinction during the Pliocene.^[1]^[2] It is related to the baiji.^[3]

References[]

^ Barnes, L.G. (July 1984). "Fossil odontocetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Almejas Formation, Isla Cedros, Mexico". PaleoBios. 42: 1–46.
^ The Paleobiology Database
^ Boessenecker, Robert W.; Poust, Ashley W. (2015). "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14754983". Palaeontology. 58 (3): 489–496. doi:10.1111/pala.12153. {{cite journal}}: External link in |title= (help)

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[1] Barnes, L.G. (July 1984). "Fossil odontocetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Almejas Formation, Isla Cedros, Mexico". PaleoBios. 42: 1–46.

[TPBDB-2] The Paleobiology Database

[3] Boessenecker, Robert W.; Poust, Ashley W. (2015). "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14754983". Palaeontology. 58 (3): 489–496. doi:10.1111/pala.12153. {{cite journal}}: External link in |title= (help)

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Parapontoporia Temporal range: Late Miocene–Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Reconstruction of Parapontoporia pacifica (top) with the fossil porpoise
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Lipotidae
Genus:	†Parapontoporia , 1984
Species
P. pacifica P. sternbergi P. wilsoni