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Phocaenopsis
Taxonomy
Phocaenopsis was named by Huxley (1859) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-l]. Its type is Phocaenopsis mantelli.
It was synonymized subjectively with Acrodelphis by Zittel (1925); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001).
It was assigned to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904) and Kellogg (1928); to Odontoceti by Fordyce (1980) and Fordyce (1981); to Phocaenidae by Simpson (1945) and Carroll (1988); to Rhabdosteidae by Benton (1993) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Huxley (1859) and Sepkoski (2002); and to Eurhinodelphinidae by Fordyce and Roberts (2009), Ortega and Fordyce (2009) and Berta (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Acrodelphis by Zittel (1925); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001).
It was assigned to Delphinidae by Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904) and Kellogg (1928); to Odontoceti by Fordyce (1980) and Fordyce (1981); to Phocaenidae by Simpson (1945) and Carroll (1988); to Rhabdosteidae by Benton (1993) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Huxley (1859) and Sepkoski (2002); and to Eurhinodelphinidae by Fordyce and Roberts (2009), Ortega and Fordyce (2009) and Berta (2017).
Species
P. mantelli (type species), P. scheynensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1859 | Phocaenopsis Huxley p. 677 |
| 1904 | Phocaenopsis Palmer p. 532 |
| 1904 | Phocaenopsis Trouessart p. 769 |
| 1928 | Phocaenopsis Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1 |
| 1945 | Phocaenopsis Simpson p. 104 |
| 1980 | Phocaenopsis Fordyce p. iii figs. Table 2 |
| 1981 | Phocaenopsis Fordyce p. 563 |
| 1988 | Phocaenopsis Carroll |
| 1993 | Phocaenopsis Benton p. 761 |
| 1997 | Phocaenopsis McKenna and Bell p. 374 |
| 2002 | Phocaenopsis Sepkoski |
| 2009 | Phocaenopsis Fordyce and Roberts p. 553 |
| 2009 | Phocaenopsis Ortega and Fordyce p. 164 |
| 2017 | Phocaenopsis Berta p. 165 |
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G. †Phocaenopsis Huxley 1859
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†Phocaenopsis mantelli Huxley 1859
†Phocaenopsis scheynensis Du Bus 1872
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available