Lagenorhynchus Gray 1846 (dolphin)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Alternative spelling: Delphinus (Lagenorhynchus)

Synonyms: Electra Gray 1866, Lagenorhynchus (Electra) Gray 1866, Lagenorhynchus (Leucopleurus) Gray 1866, Leucopleurus Gray 1866

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1846. On the British Cetacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 17:82-85

Parent taxon: Delphinidae according to N. L. Vollmer et al. 2019

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Berta 2017, Buchholtz and Schur 2004, Cope 1890, de Muizon 1988, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Flower 1867, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Geisler et al. 2011, Gill 1871, Gill 1872, Gray 1846, Gray 1846, Gray 1850, Gray 1863, Gray 1864, Gray 1866, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Gray 1870, Gray 1871, Hershkovitz 1966, Jefferson 2021, Jefferson and Barros 1997, Kasuya 1973, LeDuc et al. 1999, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Murakami et al. 2014, Palmer 1904, Perrin et al. 2013, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Turner 1912, Uhen et al. 2008, Vidal 1991, Weber 1928, Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008 and Winge 1921

Sister taxa: Arimidelphis, Australodelphis, Catodontina, Delphininae, Delphinus malayanus, Eodelphinus, Globicephalinae, Hemisyntrachelus, Lagenorhynchina, Lissodelphininae, Monoceratina, Norisdelphis, Orcaellinae, Orcina, Orcininae, Orcinus, Pliodelphis, Sotalia, Steninae, Steno, Steno cudmorei, Stenonina, Stenoninae, Trispondylus, Tursiops miocaenus

Subtaxa: Delphinus superciliosus Lagenorhynchus acutus Lagenorhynchus albirostris Lagenorhynchus clanculus Lagenorhynchus harmatuki Lagenorhynchus nilssonii

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Type: Lagenorhynchus albirostris

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Denmark (2 collections), Greenland (1), Iceland (1), the Netherlands (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)

• Miocene of Libya (1), New Zealand (1)

Total: 12 collections including 14 occurrences

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