Haborodelphis

Haborodelphis is an extinct genus of beluga-like odontocete cetacean known from the Early Pliocene from the north-west Pacific. It was first named by Hiroto Ichishima and colleagues in 2018 and the type species is H. japonicus.^[1]

Haborodelphis Temporal range: Early Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Whippomorpha
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Monodontidae
Genus:	†Haborodelphis Ichishima et al., 2018
Species:	†H. japonicus
Binomial name
†Haborodelphis japonicus Ichishima et al., 2018

The type fossil was found in the Embetsu Formation in Haboro, Japan.^[1] There is only one known specimen as of 2021.^[2]