Schizodelphis Gervais 1861 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Synonyms: Cyrtodelphis Abel 1900 [objective synonym], Platyrhynchus Van Beneden 1876

Full reference: P. Gervais. 1861. Sur différents espèces de vertébrés fossiles observées pour la plupart dans le Midi de la France [On different species of vertebrate fossils observed mostly in the South of France]. Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier, Mémoires de la Section des Sciences 5:117-132

Parent taxon: Eurhinodelphinidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Abel 1900, Abel 1901, Abel 1905, Abel 1919, Allen 1921, Barnes and Mitchell 1978, Benoit et al. 2011, Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2002, Bianucci and Varola 2014, Brandt 1874, Carroll 1988, Dal Piaz 1929, Daxner-Hoeck 1971, Depéret 1893, Flores 1895, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Ginsburg and Janvier 1971, Ginsburg and Janvier 1975, Godfrey and Lambert 2023, Hay 1930, Kellogg 1928, Lambert 2006, Lydekker 1887, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1988, Muizon 1990, Palmer 1904, Paquier 1894, Pia 1937, Pilleri 1986, Sepkoski 2002, Sherman 1952, Simpson 1945, Stefani 1916, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Uhen et al. 2008, Winge 1921 and Zittel 1925

Sister taxa: Ceterhinops, Eurhinodelphis, Eurhinodelphis salentinus, Iniopsis, Mycteriacetus, Phocaenopsis, Vanbreenia, Xiphiacetus, Ziphiodelphis

Subtaxa: Aulacodelphis Schizodelphis barnesi Schizodelphis bogatshowi Schizodelphis compressus Schizodelphis morckhoviensis Schizodelphis planus Schizodelphis squalodontoides Schizodelphis sulcatus

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution:

• Neogene of France (1 collection)

• Miocene of Armenia (1), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (2), Egypt (3), France (6), Germany (1), Italy (7), Moldova (1), the Netherlands (1), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (8), United States (17: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Switzerland (1)

Total: 53 collections including 63 occurrences

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