Subfamily Orcininae Phylum Chordata Order Even-toed ungulate | Family Delphinidae Genus †Platalearostrum Rank Species | |
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Similar Platalearostrum, Australodelphis, Orcininae, Heaviside's dolphin, Clymene dolphin |
The blunt-snouted dolphin (Platalearostrum hoekmani, "Albert Hoekman's spoon-rostrum") is a prehistoric pilot whale known from a single specimen (NMR-9991-00005362), consisting of a partial rostrum, partial maxilla, partial premaxilla, and partial vomer. The fossil was discovered by Albert Hoekman on board a fishing trawler crew in the North Sea in 2008 and described in 2010 by Klaas Post and Erwin J.O. Kompanje. The blunt-snouted dolphin is believed to have had a balloonlike structure atop its rostrum and is estimated to have lived during the early or middle Pleistocene.
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