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Lipotidae is a
family of
river dolphins containing the
possibly extinct baiji of
China and the
fossil genus Parapontoporia from the Late
Miocene and Pliocene...
- relatives, such as
Lipotidae and Iniidae. "Infraorder
Delphinida Muizon 1984 (toothed whale)". paleobiodb.org. "Family
Lipotidae Zhou et al. 1978 (toothed...
- Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Cetotheriidae, Delphinidae, Iniidae, Kogiidae,
Lipotidae, Monodontidae, Phocoenidae, Physeteridae, Platanistidae, Pontoporiidae...
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Eolipotes is an
extinct genus of
marine "river dolphin" of the
family Lipotidae. It is the
oldest known member of the family,
having lived in what is...
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signified the
disappearance of an
entire mammal family of
river dolphins (
Lipotidae). The baiji's
extinction would be the
first recorded extinction of a well-studied...
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Marine mammals comprise over 130
living and
recently extinct species in
three taxonomic orders. The
Society for
Marine Mammalogy, an
international scientific...
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families Platanistidae (the
South Asian dolphins), the
recently extinct Lipotidae (Yangtze
river dolphin),
Iniidae (the
Amazonian dolphins) and Pontoporiidae...
- head and
their dorsal fins are set far back down the body. The
family Lipotidae contains only the baiji. DNA
evidence suggests it
separated from oceanic...
- dolphins),
Pontoporiidae (the
brackish dolphins), and
possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or
Chinese river dolphin).
There are 40
extant species named as...
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Indian river dolphins Ziphioidea Ziphiidae:
Beaked whales Lipotoidea Lipotidae:
Baiji (functionally extinct)
Inioidea Iniidae:
Amazonian river dolphins...
