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Toothed whale(s), Dolphin(s)

superfamily Odontoceti Flower, 1867

• Modern species

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Cetartiodactyla, infraorder Cetacea

• Distribution
• Oligocene: Fukuoka
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Iwate, Nagano, Ishikawa, Gunma, Tochigi, Aichi, Gifu, Mie
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Miyagi
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kanagawa
• Pleistocene: Yamagata, Tokyo, Chiba
• Holocene: Saitama, Chiba, Aichi, Osaka

• Subtaxa
• Delphinidae, family, Oceanic dolphin
• Eurhinodelphis, genus
• Kentriodontidae, family, Kentriodontid
• Metasqualodon, genus
• Neophocaena, genus, Finless porpoise
• Phocoena, genus
• Physeter, genus
• Squalodon, genus