Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Alternative combinations: Cyrtodelphis sulcatus, Delphinorhynchus sulcatus, Delphinus sulcatus

Full reference: P. Gervais. 1853. Description de quelques ossements fossiles de phoques et de cétecés. Academie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier 2:307-314

Belongs to Schizodelphis according to J. Benoit et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Schizodelphis barnesi, Schizodelphis compressus, Schizodelphis morckhoviensis, Schizodelphis planus, Schizodelphis squalodontoides, Cyrtodelphis bogatshowi

Subtaxa: Schizodelphis sulcatus incurvata

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Type specimen: MNHN RL 12, a partial skull. Its type locality is Couronsec, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in France.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore