A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador.

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...

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Main Authors: Yoshihiro Tanaka, Juan Abella, Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Maria Gregori, R Ewan Fordyce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5737981?pdf=render