Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae
Alternative spelling: Potamodelphis
Full reference: G. M. Allen. 1921. Fossil cetaceans from the Florida phosphate beds. Journal of Mammalogy 2(3):144-159
Parent taxon: Platanistidae according to T. Kimura 2018
See also Allen 1921, Barnes 2002, Barnes 2006, Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2002, Boersma and Pyenson 2016, Carroll 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Ginsburg and Janvier 1971, Ginsburg and Janvier 1975, Godfrey et al. 2017, Godfrey and Lambert 2023, Gottfried et al. 1994, Hamilton et al. 2001, Hay 1930, Hulbert and Whitmore 2006, Kellogg 1928, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Morgan 1994, Muizon 1987, Muizon 1994, Sepkoski 2002, Sherman 1952, Simpson 1945, Uhen et al. 2008 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: Araeodelphis, Argyrocetinae, Dilophodelphis, Grimadelphis, Pachyacanthus, Pebanista, Platanista, Platanistinae, Pomatodelphininae, Tachyrgrhynchus, Zarhachis
Subtaxa: Pomatodelphis bobengi Pomatodelphis inaequalis Pomatodelphis santamaria Pomatodelphis stenorhynchus
Type: Pomatodelphis inaequalis
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution:
• Hemphillian of United States (2: Alabama collections)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), France (7), Germany (1), United States (16: Florida, Maryland)
Total: 28 collections including 30 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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