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Taxonomy
Delphinus occiduus was named by Leidy (1868). Its type specimen is MCZ 8765 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Half Moon Bay, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in California.
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Delphinidae by Eastman (1907); it was recombined as Phocaena occidua by Jordan and Gilbert (1919); it was considered a nomen dubium by de Muizon (1988) and Uhen et al. (2008); it was recombined as Lonchodelphis occiduus by Allen (1924), Hay (1930), Barnes (1977) and Boessenecker (2013).
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Delphinidae by Eastman (1907); it was recombined as Phocaena occidua by Jordan and Gilbert (1919); it was considered a nomen dubium by de Muizon (1988) and Uhen et al. (2008); it was recombined as Lonchodelphis occiduus by Allen (1924), Hay (1930), Barnes (1977) and Boessenecker (2013).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1868 | Delphinus occiduus Leidy p. 197 figs. Plate IX, Figure 2 |
1869 | Delphinus occiduus Leidy p. 431 |
1898 | Delphinus occiduus Trouessart p. 1031 |
1902 | Delphinus occiduus Hay p. 594 |
1904 | Delphinus occiduus Trouessart p. 765 |
1919 | Phocaena occidua Jordan and Gilbert p. 59 figs. Plate IX, Fig. 2; Plate XXVIII, Figs. 2, |
1924 | Lonchodelphis occiduus Allen pp. 194-195 |
1930 | Lonchodelphis occiduus Hay p. 593 |
1977 | Lonchodelphis occiduus Barnes p. 332 |
2013 | Lonchodelphis occiduus Boessenecker p. 817 |
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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.
†Lonchodelphis occiduus Leidy 1868
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available