Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodelphidae

Alternative combination: Prosqualodon marplesi

Full reference: M. R. Dickson. 1964. The skull and other remains of Prosqualodon marplesi, a new species of fossil whale. New Zealand Journa of Geology and Geophysics 7:626-635

Belongs to Notocetus according to R. E. Fordyce 1994

Sister taxon: Notocetus vanbenedeni

Type specimen: OM C.75.27, a partial skull. Its type locality is Trig Z, which is in a Chattian marine limestone in the Otekaike Limestone Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore