ammonites
Phocaenopsis Huxley 1859 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Invalid subtaxa: Acrodelphis scheynensis Du Bus 1872 [nomen dubium], Phocaenopsis scheynensis Du Bus 1872 [nomen dubium]

Full reference: T. H. Huxley. 1859. On a fossil bird and a fossil cetacean from New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 15:670-677

Parent taxon: Eurhinodelphinidae according to R. E. Fordyce and C. D. Roberts 2009

Sister taxa: Argyrocetus, Ceterhinops, Eurhinodelphis, Iniopsis, Macrodelphinus, Mycteriacetus, Schizodelphis, Vanbreenia, Xiphiacetus, Ziphiodelphis

Subtaxa: Phocaenopsis mantelli

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Type: Phocaenopsis mantelli

Ecology: aquatic carnivore