Phocoena Cuvier 1816

Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae

Alternative spellings: Delphinus (Phocaena), Phocaena

Synonyms: Acanthodelphis Gray 1866, Australophocaena Barnes 1985, Australophocoena Barnes 1985, Phocaena (Acanthodelphis) Gray 1866

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

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Ameghino 1889, Barnes 1977, Barnes 1985, Brownell 1975, Brownell 1983, Brownell and Praderi 1984, Carroll 1988, Colpaert et al. 2015, Cope 1890, De Kay 1842, de Muizon 1988, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Fajardo-Mellor et al. 2006, Flower 1867, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Gaskin et al. 1974, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gill 1871, Gill 1872, Gray 1821, Gray 1825, Gray 1846, Gray 1846, Gray 1850, Gray 1863, Gray 1864, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Gray 1870, Hershkovitz 1961, Hershkovitz 1966, Jefferson 1988, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Kasuya 1973, Kellogg 1928, Lankester 1864, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Murakami et al. 2014, Newton 1891, Owen 1866, Palmer 1904, Rice 1998, Scammon and Cope 1869, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912, Vidal 1991, Weber 1928 and Winge 1921

Sister taxa: Archaeophocaena, Australithax, Brabocetus, Haborophocoena, Lomacetus, Loxolithax, Miophocaena, Neophocaena, Numataphocoena, Phocoeninae, Phocoenoides, Phocoenoidinae, Piscolithax, Pterophocaena, Salumiphocaena, Semirostrum, Septemtriocetus

Subtaxa: Phocoena dioptrica Phocoena phocoena Phocoena sinus Phocoena spinipinnis

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Chile (1), Greenland (1), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alaska, California, South Carolina), Uruguay (1)

• Pliocene of Azerbaijan (1), the Netherlands (1), United States (1: California)

Total: 25 collections including 26 occurrences

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