Kentriodon

Kentriodon
Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Middle Miocene
K. pernix skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: †Kentriodontidae
Genus: †Kentriodon
Kellogg, 1927
Species[1]
  • K. pernix Kellogg, 1927 (type)
  • K. obscurus (Kellogg, 1931)
  • K. diusinus Salinas Márquez et al., 2014
  • K. fuchsii (Brandt, 1873)
  • K. hobetsu Ichishima, 1995
  • K. hoepfneri Kazár & Hampe, 2014
  • K. schneideri Whitmore & Kaltenbach, 2008
  • K. nakajimai Kimura & Hasegawa, 2019
  • K. sugawarai Guo & Kohno, 2021
Synonyms
  • Grypolithax Kellogg, 1931

Kentriodon is an extinct genus of toothed whale related to modern-day dolphins. Fossils have been found in North America, Europe and Japan.[1] Several species have been described.

  1. ^ a b Guo, Z., & Kohno, N. (2021). A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early to middle Miocene of the western North Pacific and a revision of kentriodontid phylogeny. PeerJ, 9, e10945. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10945