Family Monodontidae Gray 1821 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Monodontidae

Alternative spelling: Monodontes

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

Parent taxon: Delphinoidea according to H. Ichishima et al. 2019

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Ameghino 1889, Barnes et al. 1985, Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bianucci et al. 2019, Carroll 1988, de Muizon 1988, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Foekens 2008, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Gray 1821, Kasuya 1973, Lambert and Gigase 2007, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Merella et al. 2022, Nowak 1991, Pictet 1853, Reeves and Tracey 1980, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Simpson 1945, Stewart and Stewart 1989, Uhen et al. 2008, Velez-Juarbe and Pyenson 2012, Vidal 1991, Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008 and Winge 1921

Sister taxa: Albireonidae, Delphinidae, Eurhinodelphis pacificus, Odobenocetopsidae, Palaeophocaena, Phocoenidae, Prionodelphis, Protodelphinus, Sinanodelphis

Subtaxa: Bohaskaia Casatia Delphinapterinae Delphinapterus Denebola Haborodelphis Monodon Monodontinae

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Canada (32: New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), Denmark (7), Greenland (12), Iceland (1), Japan (1), the Netherlands (5), the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (5), United States (8: Alaska, New York, Vermont)

• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Italy (2), Japan (1), the Netherlands (2), United States (3: California, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)

• Miocene of Germany (1), Mexico (1), Peru (1), United States (7: California)

Total: 101 collections including 110 occurrences

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