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Eoplatanista
Taxonomy
Eoplatanista was named by Dal Piaz (1916) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-l]. It is not extant. Its type is Eoplatanista italica.
It was assigned to Delphinidae by Kellogg (1928); to Iniinae by Dal Piaz (1929); to Acrodelphidae by Simpson (1945); to Odontoceti by Carroll (1988); to Platanistidae by Pilleri (1985), Pilleri (1988), Pilleri (1989); to Acrodelphinidae by Benton (1993), McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Eoplatanistidae by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Bianucci and Landini (2002), Ormezzano and Lanzetti (2014), Muscio and Vecchia (2014), Fornasiero and Del Vavero (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Delphinidae by Kellogg (1928); to Iniinae by Dal Piaz (1929); to Acrodelphidae by Simpson (1945); to Odontoceti by Carroll (1988); to Platanistidae by Pilleri (1985), Pilleri (1988), Pilleri (1989); to Acrodelphinidae by Benton (1993), McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Eoplatanistidae by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Bianucci and Landini (2002), Ormezzano and Lanzetti (2014), Muscio and Vecchia (2014), Fornasiero and Del Vavero (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017).