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Eurhinodelphinidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	53264	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=53264

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Eurhinodelphinidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Cetacea	Brisson 1762
-	Pelagiceti	Uhen 2008
-	Neoceti	Fordyce and de Muizon 2001
suborder	Odontoceti	Flower 1867
-	Synrhina	Geisler et al. 2011
family	Eurhinodelphinidae	Abel 1901

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eurhinodelphinidae	subfamily	belongs to Platanistidae	stated without evidence	Trouessart, 1904
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Abel, 1905
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Squaloceti	stated without evidence	Abel, 1914
Eurhinodelphinidae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Miller, 1923
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Zittel, 1925
Eurhinodelphinidae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1930
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Squaloceti	stated without evidence	Van Deinse, 1931
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Slijper, 1936
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Delphinoidea	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1945
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Pilleri, 1985
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	subjective synonym of Rhabdosteidae	stated without evidence	Barnes et al., 1985
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Eurhinodelphoidea	stated without evidence	Muizon, 1988
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Pilleri, 1990
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Eurhinodelphinoidea	stated without evidence	Fordyce et al., 1995
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Uhen et al., 2008
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Eurhinodelphinoidea	stated without evidence	Rice, 2009
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Fordyce and Roberts, 2009
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Eurhinodelphinoidea	stated without evidence	Benoit et al., 2011
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Synrhina	stated without evidence	Geisler et al., 2011
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Eurhinodelphinoidea	stated without evidence	Valerio and Laurito, 2012
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Synrhina	stated with evidence	Marx et al., 2016
Eurhinodelphinidae	family	belongs to Delphinoidea	stated without evidence	Berta, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

28.4 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 2.6 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

carnivore (based on Odontoceti)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Odontoceti)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

O. Abel. 1901. Les dauphins longirostres du Boldérien (Miocène supérieur) des environs d'Anvers. Mémoirs Museum Royal Histoire Naturelle Belgique 1:1-95

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ceterhinops ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Eurhinodelphis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	50	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Iniopsis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Mycteriacetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Schizodelphis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	57	28.1 Ma Oligocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Vanbreenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Xiphiacetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	32	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Ziphiodelphis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1871	Rhabdosteidae Gill p. 123
1872	Rhabdosteidae Gill p. 97
1873	Rhabdosteidae Gill p. 27
1901	Eurhinodelphidae Abel p. 60
1904	Eurhinodelphinae Trouessart p. 761
1905	Eurhinodelphidae Abel p. 117
1908	Eurhinodelphidae True p. 391
1911	Eurhinodelphidae Jaekel p. 231
1914	Eurhinodelphidae Abel p. 221
1919	Eurhinodelphidae Abel p. 767
1923	Eurhinodelphininae Miller p. 40
1925	Eurhinodelphidae Zittel p. 86
1930	Eurhinodelphinae Hay p. 591
1931	Eurhinodelphidae Van Deinse p. 33
1936	Eurhinodelphidae Slijper p. 552
1945	Eurhinodelphidae Simpson p. 102
1950	Eurhinodelphis salentinus Moncharmont Zei p. 200 figs. Fig. 1-2
1979	Rhabdosteidae Myrick p. 47
1984	Rhabdosteidae Muizon p. 68
1984	Rhabdosteidae Whitmore p. 230
1985	Rhabdosteidae Barnes et al. p. 25
1985	Eurhinodelphidae Pilleri p. 31
1988	Rhabdosteidae Carroll
1988	Eurhinodelphidae Muizon p. 61
1990	Eurhinodelphidae Muizon p. 315 figs. Fig. 15
1990	Eurhinodelphinidae Pilleri p. 44

Year	Name and Author
1991	Rhabdosteidae Vidal p. 5
1993	Rhabdosteidae Benton p. 761
1995	Eurhinodelphidae Fordyce et al. p. 379
1997	Rhabdosteidae McKenna and Bell p. 374
1998	Eurhinodelphinidae Rice p. 153
2001	Eurhinodelphinidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178
2002	Argyrocetus salentinus Bianucci and Landini
2002	Eurhinodelphinidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1
2004	Eurhinodelphinidae Lambert p. 148
2005	Eurhinodelphinidae Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1
2005	Eurhinodelphinidae Lambert p. 212
2007	Eurhinodelphinidae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1
2008	Eurhinodelphinidae Foekens p. 7 figs. Table 1
2008	Eurhinodelphinidae Uhen et al. p. 571
2008	Eurhinodelphinidae Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 196
2009	Eurhinodelphinidae Fordyce and Roberts p. 553
2009	Eurhinodelphinidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1
2011	Eurhinodelphinidae Benoit et al. p. 326
2011	Eurhinodelphinidae Bianucci et al. p. 567
2011	Eurhinodelphinidae Geisler et al. p. 29 figs. Figure 5
2012	Eurhinodelphinidae Valerio and Laurito p. 153
2014	Eurhinodelphinidae Aguirre-Fernández and Fordyce p. 195
2014	Eurhinodelphinidae Fornasiero and Del Vavero p. 67
2016	Eurhinodelphinidae Marx et al. p. 127
2017	Eurhinodelphinidae Berta p. 165

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Gill T. Synopsis of the primary subdivisions of the cetaceans, Communications of the Essex Institute 6, 121-126

Gill T. Arrangement of the Families of Mammals, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 11 230, 1-98

Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929

Abel O. (1905) Les Odontocètes du Boldérien (Miocène Supérieur) D'Anvers, Mémoires du Musée royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3, 1-155

Jaekel O. (1911) , Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht über die Fossilen und Lebenden Formen [The Vertebrates. An Overview of the Fossil and Living Forms], viii-252

Abel O. (1914) Die vorfahren der bartenwale, Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 90, 155-224

Abel O. (1919) Die Stämme der Wirbeltiere, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Leipzig, 914 p.

Miller G. S. (1923) The telescoping of the cetacean skull, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 76 5, 1-70

Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074

Van Deinse A. B. (1931) , De fossilele en recente Cetacea van Nederland, 1-304

Slijper E. J. (1936) Die Cetaceen, Capita Zoologica 7, 1-590

Simpson G. G. (1945) The principles of classification and a classification of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85, 1-350

Myrick A. C. (1979) Variation, taphonomy, and adaptation of the Rhabdosteidae (=Eurhinodelphidae) (Odontoceti, Mammalia) from the Calvert Formation of Maryland and Virginia, University of California, Los Angeles, 1-411

Muizon C. (1984) Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou) II: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Pliocene inferieur de Sud-Sacaco, Institut Francais d'Etudes Andines Editions Recherche sur les Civilizations Memoire 50, 1-188

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