Dilophodelphis
Appearance
Dilophodelphis Temporal range: Early Miocene
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3D model of a Dilophodelphis fordycei skull | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Genus: | †Dilophodelphis Boersma, McMurry, and Pyenson, 2017 |
Species: | †D. fordycei
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Binomial name | |
†Dilophodelphis fordycei Boersma, McMurry, and Pyenson, 2017
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Dilophodelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) marine deposits in Oregon. The type species, Dilophodelphis fordycei, was named in 2017.[1]
Biology and description
[edit]Dilophodelphis is distinguished from other extinct relatives of the South Asian river dolphin in having enlarged supraorbital crests resembling a twin mountain arrangement, quite similar to the crests of the theropod dinosaur Dilophosaurus.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b A. T. Boersma, M. R. McCurry, and N. D. Pyenson. 2017. A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea). Royal Society Open Science