Australodelphis mirus, a bizarre new toothless ziphiid-like fossil dolphin (Cetacea: Delphinidae) from the Pliocene of Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica

Antarctic Science

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 37-54

  Ewan Fordyce, R ^a   Quilty, Patrick G ^b   Daniels, James ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Climate; Dolphin; Ecology; Evolution

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; TAXONOMY;

ANTARCTICA;

AUSTRALODELPHIS MIRUS; CEPHALOPODA; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; DELPHINIDAE; MESOPLODON; VERTEBRATA; ZANCLEA; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 0036124047     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102002000561     Document Type: Article

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