Acrodelphis
| Acrodelphis Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Acrodelphinidae |
| Genus: | †Acrodelphis Abel, 1900 |
| Type species | |
| †Acrodelphis letochae Brandt, 1873
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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
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
- ^ "Acrodelphis Abel, 1900". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
- ^ O. Abel. 1900. Untersuchungen Uber die Fossilen Platanistiden des Wiener Beckens. Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 68:1-36
- ^ Abel, O., 1905. Les Odontocètes du Boldérien (Miocène Supérieur) D'Anvers. Mémoires du Musée royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3:1-155.
- ^ Trouessart, M., 1906. Mammiferes. Revue Critique de Paleozoologie 4: 197-206.
- ^ 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 Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 344 pp.