Lipotidae

 ( Mammal Families ) 

Lipotidae is a family of containing the possibly extinct baiji of China and the fossil genus Parapontoporia from the Late Miocene and Pliocene of the Pacific coast of North America.Barnes, L.G., 1984. Fossil odontocetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Almejas Formation, Isla Cedros, Mexico. PaleoBios 42:1-46L. G. Barnes. 1985. Fossil pontoporiid dolphins (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Pacific Coast of North America. Contributions in Science 363:1-34. The genus Prolipotes, which is based on a mandible fragment from Neogene coastal deposits in Guangxi, China,K. Zhou, M. Zhou, and Z. Zhao. 1984. First discovery of a Tertiary platanistoid fossil from Asia. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute 35:173-181. has been classified as an extinct relative of the baiji, but is dubious.N. D. Pyenson. 2009. Requiem for Lipotes: An evolutionary perspective on marine mammal extinction. Marine Mammal Evolution 25(3):714-724 The oldest known member of the family is Eolipotes from the Late Miocene of Japan.

The only species of the Lipotidae family that has flourished until recent times is the baiji ( Lipotes vexillifer), which lives in the /ref>

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• †(?) Baiji
• †(?) Baiji
• Parapontoporia
• Parapontoporia
• Parapontoporia
• Parapontoporia
• Prolipotes
• Prolipotes
• Eolipotes
• Eolipotes