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Pomatodelphis
Taxonomy
Pomatodelphis was named by Allen (1921) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m T Plio-l]. Its type is Pomatodelphis inaequalis. It was considered monophyletic by Uhen et al. (2008).
It was corrected as Potamodelphis by Carroll (1988), Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Iniidae by Allen (1921); to Delphinidae by Kellogg (1928); to Delphininae by Hay (1930); to Acrodelphidae by Simpson (1945), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Ginsburg and Janvier (1975), Carroll (1988); to Acrodelphinidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Platanistidae by Sherman (1952), Muizon (1987), Muizon (1994), Gottfried et al. (1994), Morgan (1994), Hamilton et al. (2001), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Bianucci and Landini (2002), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Uhen et al. (2008), Boersma and Pyenson (2016), Berta (2017), Kimura (2018); and to Pomatodelphininae by Barnes (2002), Barnes (2006), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Marx et al. (2016), Godfrey et al. (2017), Godfrey and Lambert (2023).
It was corrected as Potamodelphis by Carroll (1988), Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Iniidae by Allen (1921); to Delphinidae by Kellogg (1928); to Delphininae by Hay (1930); to Acrodelphidae by Simpson (1945), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Ginsburg and Janvier (1975), Carroll (1988); to Acrodelphinidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Platanistidae by Sherman (1952), Muizon (1987), Muizon (1994), Gottfried et al. (1994), Morgan (1994), Hamilton et al. (2001), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Bianucci and Landini (2002), Hulbert and Whitmore (2006), Uhen et al. (2008), Boersma and Pyenson (2016), Berta (2017), Kimura (2018); and to Pomatodelphininae by Barnes (2002), Barnes (2006), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Marx et al. (2016), Godfrey et al. (2017), Godfrey and Lambert (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1921 | Pomatodelphis Allen p. 145 |
| 1928 | Pomatodelphis Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1 |
| 1930 | Pomatodelphis Hay p. 591 |
| 1945 | Pomatodelphis Simpson p. 103 |
| 1952 | Pomatodelphis Sherman p. 99 |
| 1971 | Pomatodelphis Ginsburg and Janvier p. 176 |
| 1975 | Pomatodelphis Ginsburg and Janvier p. 85 |
| 1987 | Pomatodelphis Muizon p. 13 |
| 1988 | Potamodelphis Carroll |
| 1994 | Pomatodelphis Gottfried et al. p. 233 |
| 1994 | Pomatodelphis Morgan p. 251 |
| 1994 | Pomatodelphis Muizon p. 136 |
| 1997 | Pomatodelphis McKenna and Bell p. 390 |
| 2001 | Pomatodelphis Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178 |
| 2001 | Pomatodelphis Hamilton et al. p. 554 |
| 2002 | Pomatodelphis Barnes p. 410 |
| 2002 | Pomatodelphis Bianucci and Landini p. 21 |
| 2002 | Potamodelphis Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Pomatodelphis Barnes p. 32 |
| 2006 | Pomatodelphis Hulbert and Whitmore p. 19 |
| 2008 | Pomatodelphis Uhen et al. p. 581 |
| 2008 | Pomatodelphis Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 193 |
| 2016 | Pomatodelphis Boersma and Pyenson p. 12 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2016 | Pomatodelphis Marx et al. p. 125 |
| 2017 | Pomatodelphis Berta p. 163 |
| 2017 | Pomatodelphis Godfrey et al. figs. Figure 6 |
| 2018 | Pomatodelphis Kimura p. 4 figs. FIg. 4 |
| 2023 | Pomatodelphis Godfrey and Lambert p. 88 |
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G. †Pomatodelphis Allen 1921
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†Pomatodelphis bobengi Case 1934
†Pomatodelphis inaequalis Allen 1921
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Invalid names: Schizodelphis depressus Allen 1921 [synonym]
†Pomatodelphis santamaria Godfrey and Lambert 2023
†Pomatodelphis stenorhynchus Holl 1829
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Invalid names: Champsodelphis renovi Laurillard 1844 [synonym], Schizodelphis depereti Paquier 1894 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| G. M. Allen 1921 | ong-beaked dolphins resembling Schizodelphis in general form of the skull except that the rostrum has a convex expansion of the maxillary outline at the proximal end of the tooth rows; combined width of lower jaws narrower than the upper so that the lower tooth rows close inside the upper (like the lid of a pot--riua); teeth of lower jaw directed upward into the maxillary, where the tips of the more posterior are received in shallow pits, instead of being, as in Schizodelphis, directed outward and interlocking with the maxillary teeth outside the tooth rows. | |
| M. D. Uhen et al. 2008 | Long–beaked dolphins resembling Schizodelphis, in general form of the skull except that the rostrum has a convex expansion of the maxillary outline at the proximal end of the tooth rows; combined width of lower jaws narrower than the upper so that the lower tooth rows close inside the upper; teeth of lower jaw directed upward into the maxillary, where the tips of the more posterior are received in shallow pits, instead of being, as in Schizodelphis, directed outward and interlocking with the maxillary teeth outside the tooth rows (Allen, 1921). Rostrum dorsoventrally flattened and mandibular symphyses likewise dorsoventrally flattened. |