Arktocara ("Platanista gangetica") which inhabits the tropics, making it its closest living relative. Allodelphinidae also included the genera "Allodelphis", "Goedertius", "Ninjadelphis", and "Zarhinocetus". Its discovery further reinforces the theory that the Platanistoidea river dolphins originated in the oceans. Of the characteristics it shared with other platanistoids was a cylindrical projection of the periotic bone in the ear, deeply grooved rostral sutures on the beak, the widening of the cranium, a depression on the roof of the orbit in the eye socket, a smaller exposed palatine bone in the roof of the mouth, an elongated and convex spine in the tympanic bulla
Endangered Species Act of 1969 such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It also stated that species on the foreign endangered list could not be brought into the United States. The 1969 act further amended other existing laws to prohibit throughout the United States the sale or purchase by any person of any domestically endangered species or part or product thereof that was taken in any manner in violation of the laws or regulations of a state or foreign country. It also established the framework for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITIES which, "accords varying