platanista การใช้
- Sharks and the Gangetic dolphins ( " Platanista gangetica " ) roam the waterways.
- In essence, their foraging mechanism was similar to that of modern young " Platanista " " dolphins ".
- Birds found in the delta include kingfishers, eagles, woodpeckers, the shalik ( " Ganges river dolphin ( " Platanista gangetica gangetica " ).
- Squalodontids are most likely very distantly related to extant oceanic dolphins but, according to French palaeontologist Christian de Muizon, more closely related to the South Asian river dolphin ( " Platanista gangetica " ).
- It has been suggested that " Zhenyuanopterus " foraged while swimming, trapping prey within its needle-like teeth, a method similar to that of modern " Platanista " river dolphins, which display a similar dentition.