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Xiphiacetus cristatus
Taxonomy
Priscodelphinus cristatus was named by Du Bus (1872). Its type specimen is IRSNB 3234-M.361, a partial skeleton (occipital condyles), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium. It is the type species of Priscodelphinus.
It was recombined as Eurhinodelphis cristatus by Abel (1902), Trouessart (1904), Abel (1905), Bianucci (1996), Bianucci and Landini (2002) and Lambert (2005); it was recombined as Xiphiacetus cristatus by Lambert (2005), Uhen et al. (2008), Hastings and Dooley (2017), Lambert and Goolaerts (2022) and Godfrey and Lambert (2023).
It was recombined as Eurhinodelphis cristatus by Abel (1902), Trouessart (1904), Abel (1905), Bianucci (1996), Bianucci and Landini (2002) and Lambert (2005); it was recombined as Xiphiacetus cristatus by Lambert (2005), Uhen et al. (2008), Hastings and Dooley (2017), Lambert and Goolaerts (2022) and Godfrey and Lambert (2023).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1872 | Priscodelphinus cristatus Du Bus p. 497 figs. Fig. 2-5 |
| 1874 | Priscodelphinus cristatus Vanden Broeck p. 146 |
| 1880 | Priscodelphinus cristatus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 495 |
| 1898 | Priscodelphinus cristatus Trouessart p. 1023 |
| 1902 | Eurhinodelphis cristatus Abel p. 146 figs. pl. 15, figs 1, 2; pl. 16; pl. 17, fig. |
| 1904 | Eurhinodelphis cristatus Trouessart p. 761 |
| 1905 | Eurhinodelphis cristatus Abel p. 121 |
| 1979 | Eurhinodelphis ashbyi Myrick p. 249 figs. Plats 65-66, Fig. 17 |
| 1979 | Eurhinodelphis whitmorei Myrick p. 254 figs. Plates 67, Fig. 18 |
| 1996 | Eurhinodelphis cristatus Bianucci p. 66 |
| 2002 | Eurhinodelphis cristatus Bianucci and Landini p. 21 |
| 2005 | Xiphiacetus cristatus Lambert p. 213 |
| 2005 | Eurhinodelphis cristatus Lambert p. 654 |
| 2008 | Xiphiacetus cristatus Uhen et al. p. 573 |
| 2017 | Xiphiacetus cristatus Hastings and Dooley p. 83 |
| 2022 | Xiphiacetus cristatus Lambert and Goolaerts |
| 2023 | Xiphiacetus cristatus Godfrey and Lambert p. 101 |
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†Xiphiacetus cristatus Du Bus 1872
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Invalid names: Eurhinodelphis ashbyi Myrick 1979 [synonym], Eurhinodelphis whitmorei Myrick 1979 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available