Haborodelphis

Haborodelphis
Temporal range: Early Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Monodontidae
Genus: †Haborodelphis
Ichishima et al., 2018
Species:
†H. japonicus
Binomial name
†Haborodelphis japonicus
Ichishima et al., 2018

Haborodelphis is an extinct genus of beluga-like odontocete cetacean known from the Early Pliocene from the north-west Pacific. It was first named by Hiroto Ichishima and colleagues in 2018 and the type species is H. japonicus.

The type fossil was found in the Embetsu Formation in Haboro, Japan. There is only one known specimen as of 2021.

References

  1. 1 2 Ichishima, Hiroto; Furusawa, Hitoshi; Tachibana, Makino; Kimura, Masaichi (2019). "First monodontid cetacean (Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the early Pliocene of the north-western Pacific Ocean". Papers in Palaeontology. 5 (2): 323–342. Bibcode:2019PPal....5..323I. doi:10.1002/spp2.1244.
  2. ↑ Merella, Marco; Collareta, Alberto; Granata, Valerio; Casati, Simone; Bianucci, Giovanni (2021), A SECOND SPECIMEN OF THE ARCHAIC MEDITERRANEAN MONODONTID CETACEAN CASATIA THERMOPHILA FROM THE ZANCLEAN DEPOSITS OF ARCILLE (TUSCANY, ITALY), ITA, retrieved 2025-03-24