| Description | Pomatodelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin from Middle Miocene marine deposits in Alabama, Florida, Brazil, Germany and France.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Platanistidae : Pomatodelphis |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Platanistidae : Pomatodelphis |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Pomatodelphis Allen, 1921 |
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| Name Published In | J. Mamm., 2 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Iniidae | stated without evidence | Allen, 1921 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Delphinidae | stated without evidence | Kellogg, 1928 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Delphininae | stated without evidence | Hay, 1930 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Acrodelphidae | stated without evidence | Simpson, 1945 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated without evidence | Sherman, 1952 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Acrodelphidae | stated without evidence | Ginsburg and Janvier, 1971 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated without evidence | Muizon, 1987 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Acrodelphidae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated with evidence | Muizon, 1994 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated without evidence | Gottfried et al., 1994 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Acrodelphinidae | implied | McKenna and Bell, 1997 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated without evidence | Fordyce and de Muizon, 2001 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Cetacea | second hand | Sepkoski, 2002 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated without evidence | Bianucci and Landini, 2002 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Pomatodelphininae | stated without evidence | Barnes, 2002 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated without evidence | Hulbert and Whitmore, 2006 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Pomatodelphininae | stated without evidence | Barnes, 2006 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated with evidence | Uhen et al., 2008 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Pomatodelphininae | stated without evidence | Whitmore and Kaltenbach, 2008 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated with evidence | Boersma and Pyenson, 2016 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Pomatodelphininae | stated with evidence | Marx et al., 2016 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated without evidence | Berta, 2017 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Pomatodelphininae | stated with evidence | Godfrey et al., 2017 | | Pomatodelphis | genus | belongs to Platanistidae | stated with evidence | Kimura, 2018 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 4 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 10.3 - 4.9 Ma
Neogene |
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| Environment | marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Cetacea) |
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| Diet | piscivore (based on Platanistidae) |
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| Reproduction | viviparous (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Ontogeny | modification of parts (based on Cetacea) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | G. M. Allen. 1921. A new fossil cetacean. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 65(1):1-14 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomatodelphis |
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| Allen G. M. (1921) A new fossil cetacean, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 65 1, 1-14 |
| Allen G. M. (1921) Fossil cetaceans from the Florida phosphate beds, Journal of Mammalogy 2 3, 144-159 |
| Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074 |
| Simpson G. G. (1945) The principles of classification and a classification of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85, 1-350 |
| Sherman H. B. (1952) A list and bibliography of the mammals of Florida, living and extinct, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 15 2, 86-126 |
| Ginsburg L., Janvier P. (1971) Les mamiferes marins des faluns miocenes de la Touraine et de l'Anjou, Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sciences de la Terre 6 22, 161-195 |
| Ginsburg L., Janvier P. (1975) Les mammiferes marins des faluns de la Touraine et de l'Anjou: faune, gisements et paleobiologie, Bulletin Society E. sci. Anjou, N. S. 9, 73-96 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Morgan G. S. (1994) Miocene and Pliocene marine mammal faunas from the Bone Valley Formation of central Florida, Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr., Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29, 239-268 |
| Muizon C. (1994) Are the squalodonts related to the platanistoids?, Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29, 135-146 |
| McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640 |
| Fordyce R. E., de Muizon C. (2001) Evolutionary history of the cetaceans: a review, Secondary Adaptations of Tetrapods to Life in the Water, 169-233 |
| Barnes L. G. (2002) An Early Miocene long-snouted marine platanistid dolphin (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Korneuburg Basin (Austria), Beiträge Paläontologie 27, 407-418 |
| Bianucci G., Landini W. (2002) Change in diversity, ecological significance and biogeographical relationships of the Mediterranean Miocene toothed whale fauna, Geobios Mémoire spécial 24, 19-28 |
| Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560 |
| Barnes L. G. (2006) A phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), Beitrage zur Palaontologie 30, 25-42 |
| Hulbert R. C., Whitmore F. C. (2006) Late Miocene mammals from the Mauvilla Local Fauna, Alabama, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 46 1, 1-28 |
| Uhen M. D., Fordyce R. E., et al (2008) Odontoceti, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America II, 566-606 |
| Whitmore F. C., Kaltenbach J. A. (2008) Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina, Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14, 181-269 |
| Boersma A., Pyenson N. D. (2016) Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea, PeerJ 4, e2321 doi:10.7717/peerj.2321 |
| Marx F. G., Lambert O., et al (2016) Cetacean Paleobiology, 1-319 |
| Berta A. (2017) , The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution, 1-198 |
| Godfrey S. J., Barnes L. G., et al (2017) The Early Miocene odontocete Araeodelphis natator Kellogg, 1957 (Cetacea; Platanistidae), from the Calvert Formation of Maryland, U.S.A, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1278607 doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1278607 |
| Kimura T. (2018) First squalodelphinid from the early Miocene of the Pacific realm in the Northern Hemisphere, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 4, e1493595 doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1493595 |
| GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| J. Mamm., 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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