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A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador
Tanaka, Yoshihiro (Ōsaka Shiritsu Shizenshi Hakubutsukan)
Abella, Juan (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Aguirre-Fernández, Gabriel (Universität Zürich. Paläontologische Museum)
Gregori, Maria (Universidad Estatal de la Península de Santa Elena (Equador))
Fordyce, R. Ewan (University of Otago. Department of Geology)

Date: 2017
Abstract: A new small probable Oligocene dolphin from Ecuador represents a new genus and species, Urkudelphis chawpipacha. The new taxon is known from a single juvenile skull and earbones; it differs from other archaic dolphins in features including widely exposed frontals at the vertex, a dorsally wide open vomer at the mesorostral groove, and a strongly projected and pointed lateral tuberosity of the periotic. Phylogenetic analysis places it toward the base of the largely-extinct clade Platanistoidea. The fossil is one of a few records of tropical fossil dolphins.
Grants: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CGL2016-76431-P
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad CGL2015-68333
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Language: Anglès
Document: Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in: PloS one, Vol. 12, issue 12 (Desembre 2017) , e0188380, ISSN 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188380
PMID: 29261688


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