Brujadelphis (original) (raw)
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Extinct genus of mammals
| _Brujadelphis_Temporal range: Middle Miocene (Laventan)~13.6–11.6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †_Brujadelphis_Lambert et al. 2017 |
| Species: | †_B. ankylorostris_ |
| Binomial name | |
| **†Brujadelphis ankylorostris**Lambert et al. 2017 |
Brujadelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin-like cetaceans of uncertain family placement from the Late Miocene epoch (Serravallian) of present-day Peru. The type species is Brujadelphis ankylorostris, recovered from the Pisco Formation.[1]
- ^ Lambert et al., 2017
- Lambert, Olivier; Bianucci, Giovanni; Urbina, Mario; Geisler, Jonathan H. (2017), "A new inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from the Miocene of Peru and the origin of modern dolphin and porpoise families" (PDF), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 179 (4): 919–946, retrieved 2019-02-12