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Etruridelphis giulii

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus giulii was named by Lawley (1876). Its type specimen is lost, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Orciano Pisano, which is in a Piacenzian open shallow subtidal mudstone in Italy.

It was synonymized subjectively with Delphinus delphis by Trouessart (1898); it was recombined as Steno giulii by Pilleri (1987); it was recombined as Stenella giulii by Bianucci (1996) and Bianucci (1996); it was recombined as Etruridelphis giulii by Bianucci et al. (2009) and Murakami et al. (2014).

Synonyms
  • Steno bellardii was named by Portis (1886) [no specimen number listed by Portis]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bagnasco, which is in a Zanclean/Piacenzian marine horizon in the Sabbie d'Asti Formation of Italy.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Astadelphis gastaldii by Bianucci (1996); it was synonymized subjectively with Etruridelphis giulii by Bianucci et al. (2009).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Delphinus giulii Lawley p. 108
1886Steno bellardii Portis p. 348
1898Steno bellardii Trouessart p. 1028
1904Steno bellardii Trouessart p. 764
1987Steno bellardii Pilleri p. 53
1987Steno giulii Pilleri p. 53
1996Stenella giulii Bianucci p. 63
2009Etruridelphis giulii Bianucci et al. p. 279 figs. Fig. 3-7
2014Etruridelphis giulii Murakami et al. p. 492 figs. Table 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
subfamilyDelphininae
genusEtruridelphis
speciesgiulii()

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.

Etruridelphis giulii Lawley 1876
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Invalid names: Steno bellardii Portis 1886 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. Bianucci et al. 2009Etruridelphis giulii differs from all delphinid species for the following combination of characters: condylobasal length about 550-600 mm, rostrum relatively elongated (about 60 % of the condylobasal length), 50-70 small teeth (diameter less than 1% of the
condylobasal length) for each tooth row, premaxillae flat and wide on the rostrum (ratio between the rostrum and the premaxillae width at mid-length of the rostrum ranging between 0.57 and 0.70), short mandibular symphysis (about 15 % of total length of the mandible), periotic with relatively narrow superior process (sensu KASUYA 1973), moderately wide tympanic bulla with ventral surface showing a “ventral keel” and a “hemispherical prominence” (sensu
KASUYA 1973), malleus with ventral portion moderately narrow and with processus muscularis less elevated than in most delphinids. Among the extant delphinids, Etruridelphis giulii shows the greatest affinities with Stenella spp. but it differs in having a larger skull, premaxillae on the rostrum wider and less transversally arched, narrower superior process of the periotic and lower processus mus - cularis of the malleus (mallei of extant S. frontalis and S. clymene not examined). Etruridelphis giulii differs from the fragmentary specimen referred to Stenella rayi in the larger size of skull and the more elongated rostrum.