Pomatodelphis
Pomatodelphis Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Platanistidae |
Subfamily: | †Pomatodelphininae |
Genus: | †Pomatodelphis Allen, 1921 |
Type species | |
†Pomatodelphis inaequalis Allen, 1921
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Pomatodelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin from Middle Miocene marine deposits in Alabama, Florida, Brazil, Germany and France.
Classification
Pomatodelphis belongs to the platanistid subfamily Pomatodelphininae, which is distinguished from the South Asian river dolphin in having a flattened rostrum, a transversely expanded posterior end of the premaxilla, an eye and bony orbit of normal size (not atrophied), and nasal bones not reduced in size but wide transversely. A close relative of Pomatodelphis is Prepomatodelphis from marine deposits in Austria. Three species are known, P. inaequalis, P. bobengi, and P. stenorhynchus.
Fossil distribution
Fossils of Pomatodelphis have been found in:
- Citronelle Formation (Hemphillian), Alabama
- Solimões Formation (Huayquerian), Brazil
- Marks Head, Peace River and Statenhead Formations, Florida
- France
- Germany
- River dolphins
- Miocene cetaceans
- Miocene mammals of Europe
- Neogene France
- Fossils of France
- Neogene Germany
- Fossils of Germany
- Miocene mammals of North America
- Neogene United States
- Hemphillian
- Fossils of the United States
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Neogene Brazil
- Huayquerian
- Fossils of Brazil
- Fossil taxa described in 1921