Arimidelphis sorbinii a new small killer whale-like dolphin from the Pliocene of Marecchia river (Central Eastern Italy) and a phylogenetic analysis of the Orcininae (Cetacea: Odontoceti)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 329-344

  Bianucci, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cetacea; Cladistics; Delphinidae; Emilia Romagna; Italy; New taxa; Orcininae; Paleobigeography; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLIOCENE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EMILIA-ROMAGNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; DELPHINUS; DOLPHIN (WHALE); EMILIA; GLOBICEPHALA; GRAMPUS; ODONTOCETI; ORCAELLA; ORCINUS; ORCINUS ORCA; PSEUDORCA; TURSIOPS;

EID: 24944553069     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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