Urkudelphis

Urkudelphis Temporal range: Late Oligocene (Deseadan) ~28–23 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Genus:	†Urkudelphis Tanaka et al. 2017
Species:	†U. chawpipacha
Binomial name
†Urkudelphis chawpipacha Tanaka et al. 2017

Urkudelphis is an extinct genus of cetacean.[1] The type species, Urkudelphis chawpipacha, was described in 2017 based on fossils found in the Dos Bocas Formation of Ecuador.[2] It was a type of river dolphin.

References

1. 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.
2. Urkudelphis at Fossilworks.org