Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodelphinidae
Alternative spellings: Squalodelphidae, Squalodelphinae
Full reference: G. Dal Piaz. 1917. Gli Odontoceti del Miocene bellunese, Parte Terza. Squalodelphis fabiannii. Memorie dell' Instituto Geologico della R. Universita di Padova 5(1):1-34
Parent taxon: Platanidelphidi according to S. J. Godfrey and O. Lambert 2023
See also Aguirre-Fernández and Fordyce 2014, Barnes 2006, Barnes et al. 1985, Barnes and Reynolds 2009, Berta 2017, Bianucci et al. 2018, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bianucci et al. 2015, Dal Piaz 1929, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Ginsburg and Janvier 1971, Godfrey et al. 2006, Lambert et al. 2014, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1984, Muizon 1987, Muizon 1990, Muizon 1994, Nelson and Uhen 2018, Pilleri 1985, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Uhen et al. 2008, Van Deinse 1931, Viglino et al. 2022 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxon: Ensidelphis
Subtaxa: Furcacetus Huaridelphis Macrosqualodelphis Medocinia Notocetus Phocageneus Squalodelphis
Type: Squalodelphis
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (4 collections), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), Peru (6), Switzerland (1), United States (6: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
Total: 29 collections including 33 occurrences