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 : 11-12

? Kentriodontidae indet. 2

Figure 5D–E

Material and localities. Two thoracic and caudal vertebrae; Stăuceni, Stâncești.

Description and comparison. This is an unusually derived morphotype characterised by extremely short vertebral centra, mostly recorded in modern delphinids ( Buchholtz, 2001). The dwarf size of the specimens resembles Microphocaena podolica from the Volhynian of Brykiv ( Ukraine), which is known only from its cranium. Notably, M. podolica is the only previously known Volhynian

cetacean from the Fore-Carpathian Basin. Periotic bones from a few dwarf kentriodontids were also reported earlier from the Vienna Basin ( Kazár, 2006).