Pliodelphis

Pliodelphis
Temporal range: Early Pliocene (Zanclean), 5–4.4 Ma
Pliodelphis holotype skull (1).png
Holotype skull in dorsal view
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Superfamily: Delphinoidea
Family: Delphinidae
Genus: Pliodelphis
Belluzo & Lambert, 2021
Type species
Pliodelphis doelensis
Belluzo & Lambert, 2021

Pliodelphis (meaning "Pliocene dolphin") is a genus of small delphinid (oceanic dolphin) cetaceans that lived in Belgium during the Early Miocene epoch, about 5 million to 4.4 million years ago. The genus contains the type species Pliodelphis doelensis, named and described in 2021 based on a partial skull recovered from the littoral Kattendijk Formation.

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