Goedertius
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| Goedertius Temporal range: Miocene
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| File:Goedertius skulls.png | |
| Skulls assigned to Goedertius sp. | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Superfamily: | Platanistoidea |
| Family: | †Allodelphinidae |
| Genus: | †Goedertius Kimura and Barnes, 2016 |
| Species: | †G. oregonensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Goedertius oregonensis Kimura and Barnes, 2016
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Goedertius is an extinct genus of river dolphin from the early Miocene (Burdigalian) Nye Formation of Oregon.
Description
[edit | edit source]Goedertius is distinguished from other allodelphinids by a depression on the posterior part of the rostrum, smaller nasal bones, wider dorsal opening of mesorostral canal on posterior part of rostrum, and dorsal exposures of frontals at cranial vertex smaller.[1]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Toshiyuki Kimura and Lawrence G. Barnes (2016). "New Miocene fossil Allodelphinidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Platanistoidea) from the North Pacific Ocean". Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 20: 1–58.
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