Urkudelphis

Urkudelphis; Temporal range: Late Oligocene (Deseadan); ~28–23 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Superfamily:	Platanistoidea
Genus:	†Urkudelphis; Tanaka et al. 2017
Type species
	Urkudelphis chawpipacha; Tanaka et al. 2017

Urkudelphis is an extinct genus of cetacean.^[1] The type species, Urkudelphis chawpipacha, was described in 2017 based on fossils found in the Dos Bocas Formation of Ecuador.^[2] It was a type of river dolphin.

References[]

^ Yoshihiro Tanaka; Juan Abella; Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández; Maria Gregori; R. Ewan Fordyce (2017). "A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador". PLOS ONE. 12 (12): e0188380. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188380. PMC 5737981. PMID 29261688.
^ Urkudelphis at Fossilworks.org

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[1] Yoshihiro Tanaka; Juan Abella; Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández; Maria Gregori; R. Ewan Fordyce (2017). "A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador". PLOS ONE. 12 (12): e0188380. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188380. PMC 5737981. PMID 29261688.

[2] Urkudelphis at Fossilworks.org

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