Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Delphinidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 128812

Alternative combinations: Sotalia teuszi, Sotalia teuszii, Sousa teuszi

Belongs to Sousa according to T. A. Jefferson and H. C. Rosenbaum 2014

Sister taxa: Sousa chinensis, Sousa plumbea, Sousa sahulensis

Type specimen: Jena Natural History Museum, a skull. Its type locality is Bay of Warships, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in Cameroon.

Ecology: scansorial piscivore-carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): skull 495.4 x 217.1