Pontoporiidae

Pontoporiidae
Temporal range:
Stranded La Plata Dolphin, the only extant species in this family
La Plata Dolphin, Pontoporia blainvillei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Superfamily: Inioidea
Family: Pontoporiidae
Gray, 1870
Genera

†Auroracetus
†Brachydelphis
†Piscorhynchus
†Pontistes
Pontoporia
†Protophocaena
†Samaydelphis
†Scaldiporia
†Stenasodelphis

Pontoporiidae is a family of toothed whales containing the extant genus Pontoporia and ten extinct genera.[1] Pontoporia contains the family's sole extant species, the La Plata dolphin, which is endemic to southeastern South America.

References

  1. ↑ "Paleobiology Database PBDB".
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