Allodelphinidae

Allodelphinidae
Temporal range: ?late Rupelian-Langhian, 29โ€“14.5 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Superfamily: Platanistoidea
Family: โ€ Allodelphinidae
Barnes, 2006
Genera

Allodelphinidae is a family of primitive platanistoid river dolphins found in marine deposits in the eastern North Pacific region, Alaska, and Japan.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Allodelphinidae".
  2. ^ Boersma, A. T.; Pyenson, N. D. (2016). "Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea". PeerJ. 4: e2321. doi:10.7717/peerj.2321. PMC 4991871. PMID 27602287.