Macrodelphinus is an extinct genus of primitive odontocete known from Early Miocene marine deposits in California.
Macrodelphinus is an extinct genus of primitive odontocete known from Early Miocene marine deposits in California.
==Biology== Macrodelphinus was an orca-sized odontocete similar to members of Eurhinodelphinidae in having a swordfish-like rostrum and upper jaw. Because of its size, and inch-long teeth, it is believed to have been an apex predator.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).