Scaldiporia vandokkumi, a new pontoporiid (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene to earliest Pliocene of the Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands)

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Post, Klaas, Louwye, Stephen, Lambert, Oliver
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biology and Life Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Cetacea; Inioidea; Pontoporiidae; Westerschelde; The Netherlands; Late Miocene; earliest Pliocene; EASTERN NORTH-ATLANTIC; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; DOLPHIN CETACEA; PISCO FORMATION; INIOID CETACEA; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NEOGENE; RECORD; OCEAN; BASIN; Argentina; Uruguay; Pisco; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8538192; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8538192; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3991; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8538192/file/8538197

Background. The family Pontoporiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti Inioidea) is currently represented in our oceans by just one species of diminutive dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei, franciscana). Although P. blainvillei is limited to coastal waters of the South Atlantic along Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina,...