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Acrodelphinidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4832498	https://www.gbif.org/species/4832498
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63713	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63713

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Acrodelphinidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
family	Acrodelphinidae	Abel 1905

Scientific Name

Acrodelphinidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Abel, 1905
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Squaloceti	stated without evidence	Abel, 1914
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Zittel, 1925
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Squaloceti	stated without evidence	Dal Piaz, 1929
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Slijper, 1936
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Delphinoidea	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1945
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Rice, 1984
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Rhabdosteoidea	stated without evidence	Muizon, 1984
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Pilleri, 1985
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Barnes et al., 1985
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Pilleri, 1986
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	implied	Carroll, 1988
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Muizon, 1988
Acrodelphinidae	family	belongs to Delphinoidea	implied	Sach and Heizmann, 2001

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 5.3 Ma
Miocene

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acrodelphinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Champsodelphis genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eoplatanista ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1905	Acrodelphidae Abel p. 123
1911	Acrodelphidae Jaekel p. 231
1914	Acrodelphinidae Abel p. 221
1919	Acrodelphidae Abel p. 765
1925	Acrodelphidae Zittel p. 86
1929	Acrodelphidae Dal Piaz p. 79
1931	Acrodelphidae Van Deinse p. 33
1936	Acrodelphidae Slijper p. 553
1945	Acrodelphidae Simpson p. 103
1975	Acrodelphidae Ginsburg and Janvier p. 84

Year	Name and Author
1984	Acrodelphidae Muizon p. 68
1984	Acrodelphinidae Rice p. 466
1985	Acrodelphidae Barnes et al. p. 25
1985	Acrodelphidae Pilleri p. 45
1986	Acrodelphidae Pilleri p. 77
1988	Acrodelphidae Carroll
1988	Acrodelphidae Muizon
1993	Acrodelphinidae Benton p. 762
2001	Acrodelphidae Sach and Heizmann p. 42

References

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.

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

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

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

Pilleri G. (1985) The Miocene Cetacea of the Belluno Sandstones (Eastern Southern Alps), Memoire degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universita di Padova 37, 1-250

Pilleri G. (1986) Record of Schizodelphis sulcatus (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Miocene of Preplans, Friuli (Western Carnian pre-Alps), Investigations on Cetacea 18, 167-173

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Muizon C. (1988) Le polyphyletisme des Acrodelphidae, Odontocetes longirostres du Miocene europeen, Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histore Naturelle, Section C Sciences de la Terre, Paleontologie, Geologie, Minerologie 10, 31-88

Benton M. J. (1993) , The Fossil Record 2, 1-845

Sach V. J., Heizmann E. P. J. (2001) Stratigraphy and mammal faunas of the Brackwassermolasse in the surroundings of Ulm (Southwest Germany), Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 310, 1-95

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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