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Platanistidae

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Platanistidae is a family of river dolphins containing the extant South Asian river dolphin but also extinct relatives from marine deposits in the Neogene.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanistidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9362	https://www.gbif.org/species/9362
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42941	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42941

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Platanistidae

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
superfamily	Platanistoidea	Simpson 1945
family	Platanistidae	Gray 1846

Scientific Name

Platanistidae

Name Published In

Zool. Voy. H.M.S. "Erebus" and "Terror" vol.1 p.25

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Platanistidae	unranked clade	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Gray, 1846
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Cete	stated without evidence	Gray, 1863
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Denticete	stated without evidence	Gray, 1866
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Flower, 1867
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Susoidea	stated without evidence	Gray, 1868
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Denticete	stated without evidence	Scammon and Cope, 1869
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Flower, 1883
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceta	stated with evidence	Ameghino, 1889
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Cope, 1889
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceta	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1894
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Zittel, 1894
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Cetacea	stated without evidence	Longhi, 1898
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Trouessart, 1898
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Squaloceti	stated without evidence	Abel, 1914
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Stefani, 1916
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1945
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott, 1951
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Paula Couto, 1956
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Scheffer and Rice, 1963
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Kasuya, 1973
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Whitmore, 1984
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Muizon, 1984
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Pilleri, 1985
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Barnes et al., 1985
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	implied	Carroll, 1988
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Pilleri, 1988
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Muizon, 1990
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Cetacea	implied	Nowak, 1991
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Benton, 1993
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Muizon, 1994
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Rice, 1998
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Mead and Brownell, 2005
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Gingerich, 2005
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Odontoceti	stated without evidence	Hulbert and Whitmore, 2006
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Barnes, 2006
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated with evidence	Boersma and Pyenson, 2016
Platanistidae	family	belongs to Platanistoidea	stated without evidence	Aguirre-Fernández et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (21%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 20.4 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

piscivore

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Odontoceti)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. E. Gray. 1846. On the cetaceous animals. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Capt. Sir J. C. Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843 1 & 2:1-53

Common Name(s)

River Dolphins

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanistidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Argyrocetinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Platanistinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	3	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Pomatodelphininae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)	5	16.0 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Araeodelphis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Dilophodelphis ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Meherrinia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	7.25 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Pachyacanthus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	23.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Platanista genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Pomatodelphis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	23	20.4 Ma Miocene	10.3 Ma Miocene
Prepomatodelphis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Zarhachis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	19	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Susuoidea	GBIF	family	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Susuoidea
Susuidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Susuidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1846	Platanistina Gray p. 45
1863	Platanistidae Gray p. 199
1866	Platanistidae Gray p. 62
1867	Platanistidae Flower p. 113
1868	Platanistidae Gray p. 4
1869	Platanistidae Scammon and Cope p. 20
1871	Platanistidae Gill p. 123
1872	Platanistidae Gill p. 95
1873	Platanistidae Gill p. 27
1883	Platanistidae Flower p. 184
1887	Platanistidae Lydekker p. 73
1889	Platanistidae Ameghino p. 884
1889	Platanistidae Cope p. 876
1890	Platanistidae Cope p. 603
1891	Platanistidae Flower and Lydekker p. 89
1894	Platanistidae Ameghino p. 438
1894	Platanistidae Zittel p. 171
1895	Platanistidae Flores p. 11
1898	Platanistidae Longhi p. 329
1898	Platanistidae Trouessart p. 1015
1900	Platanistidae Abel p. 843
1902	Platanistidae Hay p. 590
1904	Platanistidae Case p. 8
1904	Platanistidae Trouessart p. 756
1904	Platanistidae Weber p. 579
1908	Platanistidae True p. 391
1911	Platanistidae Jaekel p. 231
1912	Platanistidae Turner p. 94
1914	Platanistidae Abel p. 221
1916	Platanistidae Stefani p. 9
1923	Platanistidae Miller p. 40
1928	Platanistidae Kellogg p. 34 figs. Table 1
1928	Platanistidae Weber p. 389
1930	Platanistidae Hay p. 596
1936	Platanistidae Slijper p. 546
1945	Platanistidae Simpson p. 100
1951	Platanistidae Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 719
1956	Platanistidae Paula Couto p. 98
1960	Platanistidae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963	Platanistidae Scheffer and Rice p. 5
1966	Susuidae Hershkovitz p. 6

Year	Name and Author
1973	Platanistidae Kasuya p. 61
1984	Platanistidae Muizon p. 68
1984	Platanistidae Whitmore p. 230
1985	Platanistidae Barnes et al. p. 25
1985	Platanistidae Pilleri p. 61
1987	Platanistidae Muizon p. 13
1988	Platanistidae Carroll
1988	Platanistidae Pilleri p. 7
1989	Platanistidae Pilleri p. 121
1990	Platanistidae Muizon p. 312
1991	Platanistidae Nowak
1993	Platanistidae Benton p. 762
1994	Platanistidae Muizon p. 136
1995	Platanistidae Fordyce et al. p. 379
1997	Platanistidae McKenna and Bell p. 383
1997	Tachyrgrhynchus Odreman-Rivas p. 241
1998	Platanistidae Rice
2001	Platanistidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178
2002	Platanistidae Barnes p. 409
2002	Platanistidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1
2003	Platanistidae Geisler and Sanders p. 28
2005	Platanistidae Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1
2005	Platanistidae Mead and Brownell p. 738
2006	Platanistidae Barnes p. 32
2006	Platanistidae Hulbert and Whitmore p. 19
2006	Platanistidae Lambert p. 70
2007	Platanistidae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1
2008	Platanistidae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981
2008	Platanistidae Lambert et al. p. 161
2008	Platanistidae Uhen et al. p. 580
2008	Platanistidae Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 192
2009	Platanistidae Barnes and Reynolds p. 487
2009	Platanistidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1
2011	Platanistidae Geisler et al. p. 29 figs. Figure 5
2013	Platanistidae Bianucci et al. p. 741
2016	Platanistidae Boersma and Pyenson p. 12 figs. Figure 10
2016	Platanistidae Marx et al. p. 120 figs. Figure 4.25
2017	Platanistidae Aguirre-Fernández et al.
2017	Platanistidae Berta p. 163
2017	Platanistidae Boersma et al.
2017	Platanistidae Godfrey et al.

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