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Araeodelphis

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Araeodelphis natator
Temporal range: early Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this 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

Araeodelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin from the early Miocene of the East Coast of the United States.[1][2]

Fossils

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Remains of Araeodelphis are known from the early Miocene Burdigalian-age Plum Point Member of the Calvert Formation in Maryland.

Phylogeny

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Cladistic analysis by Godfrey et al. (2017) recovers Araeodelphis as basal to the South Asian river dolphin the platanistid subfamily Pomatodelphinae.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Stephen J. Godfrey; Lawrence G. Barnes; Olivier Lambert (2017). "The Early Miocene odontocete Araeodelphis Natator Kellogg, 1957 (Cetacea; Platanistidae), from the Calvert Formation of Maryland, U.S.A.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. in press: e1278607. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1278607.
  2. ^ R. Kellogg. 1957. Two additional Miocene porpoises from the Calvert Cliffs Maryland. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 107(3387):279-337