| Urkudelphis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Genus: | †Urkudelphis Tanaka et al. 2017 |
| Species: | †U. chawpipacha
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| Binomial name | |
| †Urkudelphis chawpipacha Tanaka et al. 2017
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Urkudelphis is an extinct genus of cetacean endemic to Ecuador, a tropical dolphin small in size .[1] The type species, Urkudelphis chawpipacha, was described in 2017 based in a single skull of a juvenile and auditory bones in the Dos Bocas Formation of Ecuador.[2] It was an ancestor of river dolphins It is also one of the only dolphin fossils in tropical waters.
References
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- ^ Yoshihiro Tanaka; Juan Abella; Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández; Maria Gregori; R. Ewan Fordyce (2017). "A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador". PLOS ONE. 12 (12) e0188380. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1288380T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188380. PMC 5737981. PMID 29261688.
- ^ Urkudelphis at Fossilworks.org
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