Pliopontos

Pliopontos is a genus of river dolphins that lived during the Miocene-Pliocene epochs in what are now the coasts of Chile and Peru. It contains a single species, Pliopontos littoralis, described in 1983 and known from the highly fossiliferous Pisco Formation. Additional remains attributable to the genus have been found in the Bahía Inglesa Formation and Coquimbo Formation.^[1][2][3]

Pliopontos Temporal range: Miocene-Pliocene
Skull specimen SGO.PV.967, from Bahía Inglesa Formation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Whippomorpha
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Superfamily:	Inioidea
Family:	Pontoporiidae
Genus:	†Pliopontos De Muizon, 1983
Type species
†Pliopontos littoralis De Muizon, 1983

See also

• Evolution of cetaceans
• Pontoporia