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Extinct genus of dolphins From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Araeodelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin from the early Miocene of the East Coast of the United States.[1][2]
Araeodelphis natator Temporal range: early Miocene | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Platanistidae |
Genus: | †Araeodelphis Kellogg, 1957 |
Species: | †A. natator |
Binomial name | |
†Araeodelphis natator Kellogg, 1957 | |
Remains of Araeodelphis are known from the early Miocene Burdigalian-age Plum Point Member of the Calvert Formation in Maryland.
Cladistic analysis by Godfrey et al. (2017) recovers Araeodelphis as basal to the South Asian river dolphin the platanistid subfamily Pomatodelphinae.[1]
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