Odobenocetops Three Odobenocetops
Description Odobenocetops
Source Own Work by Pavel Riha (see also the paleo-gallery by Pavel Riha http://tomcat.bf.jcu.cz/rihapa01/Index.htm)
Author Pavel Riha = user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pavel.Riha.CB
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Odobenocetops.jpg
Odobenocetops was a small toothed whale known from Peru and Chile, they are restricted to Neogene (mostly Miocene), they were believed to be somewhat extinct at the Pliocene. It had two tusks, and, in some fossils, one tusk was longer than the other. Order: Artiodactyla, Infraorder: Cetacea, Superfamily: Delphinoidea, Family: Odobenocetopsidae, Genus: Odobenocetops Muizon 1993.
Species:
O. peruvianus (type) Muizon 1993
O. leptodon Muizon, Domning & Parrish 1999.