Pliopontos

Pliopontos
Temporal range: Miocene-Pliocene
Skull specimen SGO.PV.967, from Bahía Inglesa Formation
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Superfamily: Inioidea
Family: Pontoporiidae
Genus: †Pliopontos
De Muizon, 1983
Type species
†Pliopontos littoralis
De Muizon, 1983

Pliopontos is a genus of river dolphins that lived during the Miocene-Pliocene epochs in what are now the coasts of Chile and Peru. It contains a single species, Pliopontos littoralis, described in 1983 and known from the highly fossiliferous Pisco Formation. Additional remains attributable to the genus have been found in the Bahía Inglesa Formation and Coquimbo Formation.[1][2][3]

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References

  1. ^ De Muizon, C. (1983). "Pliopontos littoralis un nouveau Platanistidae Cetacea du Pliocene de la cote peruvienne" [Pliopontos littoralis nov. gen. nov. sp. a New Platanistidae (Cetacea) from the Pliocene of the Peruvian Coast]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. 296: 625−628.
  2. ^ Canto, J. H.; Crovetto, A.; Covacevich, V. (2002). "Hallazgo de Pliopontos sp. (Cetacea: Pontoporiidae) en el Neógeno de Chile" (PDF). Noticiario Mensual del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural. 350: 28−37.
  3. ^ Canto, J.; Yañez, J.; Cozzuol, M. (2002). "Mamíferos marinos neógenos de la Formación Bahía Inglesa, Caldera, III Región, Chile". In Maxwell (ed.). Actas del I Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología de Vertebrados.