Albireonidae
| Albireonidae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Superfamily: | Delphinoidea |
| Family: | †Albireonidae |
| Genera | |
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Albireonidae is an extinct group of porpoise-like whales.[1] These medium-sized, fossil dolphins that are very rare and known only from temperate latitudes around the margin of the eastern North Pacific Ocean.[2]
References
- ↑ Stephen Leatherwood; Randall R. Reeves (2 December 2012). The Bottlenose Dolphin. Elsevier Science. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-0-323-13961-8.
This group apparently evolved directly from squalodontids. The currently recognized families in the Delphinoidea are the extinct Miocene Kentriodontidae and Albireonidae, and the extant Delphinidae (true dolphins), Phocoenidae (porpoises), ...
- ↑ Science Series. Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. 2008. pp. 147–.
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