Acrodelphis

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Acrodelphis
Temporal range: 20-16 Ma (Burdigalian)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Acrodelphinidae
Genus: Acrodelphis
Abel, 1900
Type species
Acrodelphis letochae
Brandt, 1873

Acrodelphis is a genus of extinct toothed whale from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of Austria. The type and only species is A. letochae.[1]

Taxonomy

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The genus Acrodelphis was erected by Othenio Abel for a variety of long-snouted odontocetes, including the type species of Champsodelphis.[2] However, no type species was designated for Acrodelphis. Abel (1905) removed Champsodelphis macrogenius from Acrodelphis and Trouessart (1906) designated Champsodelphis letochae as the type species of Acrodelphis.[3][4][5]

References

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  2. ^ O. Abel. 1900. Untersuchungen Uber die Fossilen Platanistiden des Wiener Beckens. Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 68:1-36
  3. ^ Abel, O., 1905. Les Odontocètes du Boldérien (Miocène Supérieur) D'Anvers. Mémoires du Musée royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3:1-155.
  4. ^ Trouessart, M., 1906. Mammiferes. Revue Critique de Paleozoologie 4: 197-206.
  5. ^ Kazár, E., 2003, Miocén fogascet-leletek (Cetacea: Odontoceti) a Kárpát-medencében. [Miocene toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti) in the Carpathian Basin.] Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 344 pp.

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