Grampus Gray 1828 (dolphin)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Alternative spelling: Delphinus (Grampus)

Synonyms: Grampidelphis Iredale and Troughton 1933, Grayius Scott 1873

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

See also Aguirre-Fernández et al. 2009, Bianucci 2005, Buchholtz and Schur 2004, Cope 1890, Dal Piaz 1929, de Muizon 1988, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Flower 1867, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Geisler et al. 2011, Gray 1846, Gray 1846, Gray 1850, Gray 1863, Gray 1864, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Hershkovitz 1966, Kasuya 1973, LeDuc et al. 1999, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Murakami et al. 2014, Palmer 1904, Perrin et al. 2013, Rice 1998, Scammon and Cope 1869, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Sherman 1952, Simpson 1945, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912, Vidal 1991, Weber 1928 and Winge 1921

Sister taxa: Feresa, Globicephala, Globidelphinidae, Grampidae, Orcaella, Peponocephala, Platalearostrum, Protoglobicephala, Pseudorca, Rododelphis

Subtaxa: Grampus griseus

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Type: Grampus griseus

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (2), Chile (1), France (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Portugal (1), South Africa (3), United States (2: New Jersey, Oregon)

• Pliocene of Japan (1)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)

• Neogene of Madagascar (1)

Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence

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