Kentriodontidae, Slijper, 1936

Gol’din, Pavel, Haiduc, Bogdan Stelian, Kovalchuk, Oleksandr, Górka, Marcin, Otryazhyi, Pavlo, Brânzilă, Mihai, Păun, Elena Ionela, Barkaszi, Zoltán, Ţibuleac, Paul & Răţoi, Bogdan Gabriel, 2020, The Volhynian (late Middle Miocene) marine fishes and mammals as proxies for the onset of the Eastern Paratethys re-colonisation by vertebrate fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 43) 23 (3), pp. 1-20 : 12

? Kentriodontidae indet. 3

Figure 5F

Material and localities. Two relatively large and short caudal vertebrae; Stăuceni, Saur-Mohyla.

Description and comparison. Both specimens are characterised by a derived shape of centra, which are as short as high ( Figure 5F), and, therefore, are similar to modern delphinids ( Buchholtz, 2001). They resemble those of Sophianaecetus commenticius ( Kazár, 2005) or “ Heterodelphis” leiodontus ( Papp, 1905) , both from the Sarmatian s.s. of the Central Paratethys. Another similar vertebra from Mitoc-Prut was reported by Macarovici and Zaharia (1967).