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Saurocetes ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4832515	https://www.gbif.org/species/4832515
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63502	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63502

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Iniidae : Saurocetes

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Iniidae : Saurocetes

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
infraorder	Delphinida	Muizon 1984
superfamily	Inioidea	de Muizon 1988
family	Iniidae
genus	Saurocetes	Burmeister 1871

Scientific Name

Saurocetes Burmeister, 1871

Name Published In

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 7

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Saurocetes	genus	belongs to Zeuglodonta	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1889
Saurocetes	genus	belongs to Saurocetidae	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1891
Saurocetes	genus	replaced by Pontoplanodes	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1891
Saurocetes	genus	replaced by Saurodelphis	stated without evidence	Burmeister, 1891
Saurocetes	genus	subjective synonym of Pontoplanodes	stated without evidence	Trouessart, 1898
Saurocetes	genus	subjective synonym of Saurodelphis	stated without evidence	Abel, 1901
Saurocetes	genus	replaced by Saurodelphis	stated without evidence	Palmer, 1904
Saurocetes	genus	replaced by Saurodelphis	implied	Pilleri and Gihr, 1979
Saurocetes	genus	subjective synonym of Saurodelphis	stated without evidence	Cozzuol, 1985
Saurocetes	genus	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	de Muizon, 1988
Saurocetes	genus	belongs to Ischyrorhynchinae	stated without evidence	Cozzuol, 1996
Saurocetes	genus	belongs to Iniidae	stated without evidence	Fordyce and de Muizon, 2001
Saurocetes	genus	belongs to Ischyrorhynchinae	stated without evidence	Cozzuol, 2010
Saurocetes	genus	belongs to Iniidae	stated without evidence	Geisler et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 7.2 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

9.00 - 5.33 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)

G. Burmeister. 1871. On Saurocetes argentinus a new type of Zeuglodontidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6):51-55

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Saurocetes argentinus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Saurodelphis gigas ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	9.00 Ma Miocene	9.00 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Saurocetus Coues, 1891	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Iniidae : *Saurocetus*
Saurodelphis Burmeister, 1891	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Iniidae : *Saurodelphis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1871	Saurocetes Burmeister pp. 51-55
1889	Saurocetes Ameghino p. 353
1891	Saurocetes Ameghino p. 163
1891	Pontoplanodes Ameghino p. 255
1891	Saurodelphis Burmeister pp. 161-162
1894	Pontoplanodes Ameghino p. 437
1898	Pontoplanodes Trouessart p. 1015
1904	Pontoplanodes Palmer p. 557
1904	Saurodelphis Palmer p. 620
1904	Pontoplanodes Trouessart p. 756
1915	Saurodelphis Rovereto p. 143
1919	Saurodelphis Abel p. 766
1925	Saurodelphis Zittel p. 87

Year	Name and Author
1928	Pontoplanodes Kellogg p. 32 figs. Table 1
1945	Saurodelphis Simpson p. 101
1985	Saurodelphis Cozzuol p. 43
1988	Saurodelphis Carroll
1988	Saurodelphis Cozzuol p. 39
1988	Saurocetes de Muizon p. 162
1996	Saurocetes Cozzuol p. 331
1997	Saurodelphis McKenna and Bell p. 387
2001	Saurocetes Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2001	Saurocetes Hamilton et al. p. 554
2010	Saurocetes Cozzuol p. 206
2012	Saurocetes Geisler et al. p. 199
2017	Saurocetes Berta p. 164

References

Burmeister G. On Saurocetes argentinus a new type of Zeuglodontidae, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6, 51-55

Ameghino F. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic], Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6, xxxii-1027

Ameghino F. Caracteres diagnosticos de cincuenta especies nuevas de mamiferos fosiles argentinos, Revista Argentina de Historia Natural 1 3, 129-167

Ameghino F. Mamiferos y aves fosiles argentinas. --Especies nuevas, adiciones y correcciones, Revista Argentina Historia Natural 1 4, 240-259

Burmeister G. Nuevos objetos en el Museo Nacional, La Prensa 22 6680, 8

Ameghino F. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie, Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13, 259-452

Trouessart E. L. , Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum 5, 665-1264

Palmer T. S. (1904) Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals, North American Fauna 23, 1-984

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

Rovereto C. (1915) Nuevas investigaciones sobre los delfines longirrostros del mioceno del Paraná (República Argentina), Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 27, 139-151

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

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

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

Cozzuol M. (1988) Una nueva especie de Saurodelphis Burmeister, 1891 (Cetacea: Iniidae) del "Mesopotamiense" (Mioceno Tardio-Plioceno Temprano) de la Provincia de Entre Rios, Argentina, Ameghiniana 25 1, 39-45

de Muizon C. (1988) Les relations phylogenetiques des Delphinida (Cetacea, Mammalia), Annales de Paleontologie 74 4, 159-227

Cozzuol M. A. (1996) The record of aquatic mammals in southern South America, Munchner Geowissenshaftliche Abhandlungen. A, Geoligie und Palaontologie 30, 321-342

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

Cozzuol M. A. (2010) Fossil record and the evolutionary history of Iniodea, Biology, Evolution, and Conservation of River Dolphins within South America and Asia, 193-217

Geisler J. H., Godfrey S. J., et al (2012) A new genus and species of late Miocene inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Meherrin River, North Carolina, U.S.A., Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 1, 198-211

Berta A. (2017) , The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution, 1-198

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

original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hamilton et al., 2001 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 7 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Cione et al., 2000 - 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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