Haborodelphis
| Haborodelphis Temporal range: Early Pliocene | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
| Family: | Monodontidae |
| Genus: | † Ichishima et al., 2018 |
| Species: | †H. japonicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Haborodelphis japonicus Ichishima et al., 2018 | |
Haborodelphis is an extinct genus of beluga-like odontocete cetacean known from the Early Pliocene from the north-west Pacific. It was first named by Hiroto Ichishima and colleagues in 2018 and the type species is H. japonicus.[1]
The type fossil was found in the Embetsu Formation in Haboro, Japan.[1] There is only one known specimen as of 2021.[2]
References
- ^ a b Ichishima, Hiroto; Furusawa, Hitoshi; Tachibana, Makino; Kimura, Masaichi (2019). "First monodontid cetacean (Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the early Pliocene of the north-western Pacific Ocean". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (2): 323–342. Bibcode:2019PPal....5..323I. doi:10.1002/spp2.1244.
- ^ Merella, Marco; Collareta, Alberto; Granata, Valerio; Casati, Simone; Bianucci, Giovanni (2021), A SECOND SPECIMEN OF THE ARCHAIC MEDITERRANEAN MONODONTID CETACEAN CASATIA THERMOPHILA FROM THE ZANCLEAN DEPOSITS OF ARCILLE (TUSCANY, ITALY), ITA, retrieved 2025-03-24