Blunt-snouted dolphin

Blunt-snouted dolphin Temporal range: Middle Pliocene to Early Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Delphinidae
Subfamily:	Orcininae
Genus:	†Platalearostrum Post & Kompanje, 2010
Species:	†P. hoekmani
Binomial name
†Platalearostrum hoekmani Post & Kompanje, 2010

Model head

The blunt-snouted dolphin (Platalearostrum hoekmani, "Albert Hoekman's spoon-rostrum") is a prehistoric pilot whale known from a single specimen (NMR-9991-00005362), consisting of a partial rostrum, partial maxilla, partial premaxilla, and partial vomer. The fossil was discovered by Albert Hoekman on board a fishing trawler in the North Sea in 2008 and described in 2010 by Klaas Post and Erwin J.O. Kompanje. The blunt-snouted dolphin is believed to have had a balloonlike structure atop its rostrum and is estimated to have lived during the middle Pliocene to early Pleistocene.[1]

References

1. Klaas Post & Erwin J.O. Kompanje (2010). "A new dolphin (Cetacea, Delphinidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the North Sea". Deinsea. 14: 1–13. ISSN 0923-9308. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-11-22.