Articles | Volume 24, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-275-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-275-2021
Research article
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02 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 02 Sep 2021

A new odontocete (Inioidea, Odontoceti) from the late Neogene of North Carolina, USA

Stephen J. Godfrey, Carolina S. Gutstein, and Donald J. Morgan III

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A new species of dolphin is named on the basis of a partial skull. It was found on a riverbed in North Carolina, USA. During the Miocene it lived in a marine environment. It is most closely related to the Amazon river dolphin. During the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, relatives of the freshwater river dolphins were living in marine environments. More recently, these marine species became extinct, survived only by those species that successfully invaded South American riverine systems.
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