| Araeodelphis natator Temporal range: early Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Platanistidae |
| Genus: | †Araeodelphis Kellogg, 1957 |
| Species: | †A. natator
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| Binomial name | |
| †Araeodelphis natator Kellogg, 1957
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Araeodelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin from the early Miocene of the East Coast of the United States.[1][2]
Fossils
[edit]Remains of Araeodelphis are known from the early Miocene Burdigalian-age Plum Point Member of the Calvert Formation in Maryland.
Phylogeny
[edit]Cladistic analysis by Godfrey et al. (2017) recovers Araeodelphis as basal to the South Asian river dolphin the platanistid subfamily Pomatodelphinae.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ R. Kellogg. 1957. Two additional Miocene porpoises from the Calvert Cliffs Maryland. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 107(3387):279-337
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