| Parapontoporia Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstruction of Parapontoporia pacifica (top) with the fossil porpoise Piscolithax tedfordi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Lipotidae |
| Genus: | †Parapontoporia Barnes, 1984 |
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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). "Freshwater occurrence of the extinct dolphin Parapontoporia (Cetacea: Lipotidae) from the upper Pliocene nonmarine Tulare Formation of California". Palaeontology. 58 (3): 489–496. doi:10.1111/pala.12153. S2CID 128980362.
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