Brujadelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin-like cetaceans of uncertain family placement from the Late Miocene epoch (Serravallian) of present-day Peru. The type species is Brujadelphis ankylorostris, recovered from the Pisco Formation.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Brujadelphis Lambert et al. 2017 |
| Species: | †B. ankylorostris
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| Binomial name | |
| †Brujadelphis ankylorostris Lambert et al. 2017
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References
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- ^ Lambert et al., 2017
Bibliography
edit- Lambert, Olivier; Bianucci, Giovanni; Urbina, Mario; Geisler, Jonathan H. (2017), "A new inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from the Miocene of Peru and the origin of modern dolphin and porpoise families" (PDF), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 179 (4): 919–946, retrieved 2019-02-12
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