| Dilophodelphis Temporal range: Early Miocene
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| 3D model of a Dilophodelphis fordycei skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Genus: | †Dilophodelphis Boersma, McMurry, and Pyenson, 2017 |
| Species: | †D. fordycei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Dilophodelphis fordycei Boersma, McMurry, and Pyenson, 2017
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Dilophodelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) marine deposits in Oregon. The type species, Dilophodelphis fordycei, was named in 2017.[1]
- ^ A. T. Boersma, M. R. McCurry, and N. D. Pyenson. 2017. A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea). Royal Society Open Science