Goniodelphis

Goniodelphis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Iniidae
Genus: Goniodelphis
Allen, 1941

Goniodelphis hudsoni is an extinct genus of Iniidae[1] (river dolphin) known from the waters of Florida during the Miocene ~14.9—11.5 through 9.1—8.7 Ma (AEO).

The fossil specimens were found in just four phosphate mines in Polk County, Florida. These mines were:

Taxonomy

Goniodelphis was named by Allen (1941). Its type is Goniodelphis hudsoni. It was considered monophyletic by Mark D. Uhen, Ph.D. of George Mason University in 2010. It was assigned to Delphinidae by Carroll (1988); and to Iniidae by Allen (1941), Kellogg (1944), de Muizon (1988), Morgan (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Hamilton et al. (2001), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Uhen et al. (2008) and Mark D. Uhen. [2]

References

  1. Royal Society, Evolution of river dolphins, Healy Hamilton, Susana Caballero, Allen G. Collins and Robert L. Brownell, Jr.
  2. Nick Pyenson, University of California at Berkeley. Pyenson and Mark D. Uhen, Ph.D., George Mason University; contributing researchers, PaleoBiology Database.
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