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Pomatodelphis

Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Pomatodelphis Allen p. 145
1928Pomatodelphis Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1
1930Pomatodelphis Hay p. 591
1945Pomatodelphis Simpson p. 103
1952Pomatodelphis Sherman p. 99
1971Pomatodelphis Ginsburg and Janvier p. 176
1975Pomatodelphis Ginsburg and Janvier p. 85
1987Pomatodelphis Muizon p. 13
1988Potamodelphis Carroll
1994Pomatodelphis Gottfried et al. p. 233
1994Pomatodelphis Morgan p. 251
1994Pomatodelphis Muizon p. 136
1997Pomatodelphis McKenna and Bell p. 390
2001Pomatodelphis Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178
2001Pomatodelphis Hamilton et al. p. 554
2002Pomatodelphis Barnes p. 410
2002Pomatodelphis Bianucci and Landini p. 21
2002Potamodelphis Sepkoski
2006Pomatodelphis Barnes p. 32
2006Pomatodelphis Hulbert and Whitmore p. 19
2008Pomatodelphis Uhen et al. p. 581
2008Pomatodelphis Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 193
2016Pomatodelphis Boersma and Pyenson p. 12 figs. Figure 10
2016Pomatodelphis Marx et al. p. 125
2017Pomatodelphis Berta p. 163
2017Pomatodelphis Godfrey et al. figs. Figure 6
2018Pomatodelphis Kimura p. 4 figs. FIg. 4
2023Pomatodelphis Godfrey and Lambert p. 88

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
Amblyoccipita
Stegoceti
familyPlatanistidae()
genusPomatodelphis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Pomatodelphis Allen 1921
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Pomatodelphis bobengi Case 1934
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Invalid names: Schizodelphis depressus Allen 1921 [synonym]
Pomatodelphis santamaria Godfrey and Lambert 2023
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Invalid names: Champsodelphis renovi Laurillard 1844 [synonym], Schizodelphis depereti Paquier 1894 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. M. Allen 1921ong-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. 2008Long–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.