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Grampus

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)63555https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63555
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Delphinidae : Grampus
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
orderCetaceaBrisson 1762
-PelagicetiUhen 2008
-NeocetiFordyce and de Muizon 2001
suborderOdontocetiFlower 1867
infraorderDelphinidaMuizon 1984
superfamilyDelphinoideaFlower 1865
familyDelphinidaeGray 1821
subfamilyGlobicephalinae
genusGrampus(Gray 1828)
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Grampussubgenusbelongs to Delphinusstated without evidenceGray, 1828
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphinidaestated without evidenceHamilton, 1837
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphininastated without evidenceGray, 1846
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphinidaestated without evidenceGray, 1850
Grampusgenusbelongs to Phocaeninastated without evidenceGray, 1864
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphinidaestated without evidenceGray, 1866
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphininaestated without evidenceFlower, 1867
Grampusgenusbelongs to Belugidaestated without evidenceGray, 1868
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphinidaestated without evidenceScammon and Cope, 1869
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphininaestated without evidenceWeber, 1928
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphinidaestated without evidenceDal Piaz, 1929
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphininaestated without evidenceFraser and Purves, 1960
Grampusgenusbelongs to Globicephalinaestated without evidenceKasuya, 1973
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphininaestated without evidencede Muizon, 1988
Grampusgenusbelongs to GlobicephalinaeimpliedMcKenna and Bell, 1997
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphinidaestated without evidenceRice, 1998
Grampusgenusbelongs to Globicephalinaestated without evidenceLeDuc et al., 1999
Grampussubgenusbelongs to DelphininaeimpliedBuchholtz and Schur, 2004
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphinidaestated without evidenceMead and Brownell, 2005
Grampusgenusbelongs to Orcininaestated without evidenceBianucci, 2005
Grampusgenusbelongs to Globicephalinaestated without evidenceAguirre-Fernández et al., 2009
Grampusgenusbelongs to Delphinidaestated with evidenceMurakami et al., 2014
Grampusgenusbelongs to Globicephalinaestated with evidenceMarx et al., 2016
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)4
Extant Size (PBDB)4 (100%)
First Recorded Appearance16.0 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene
Environmentmarine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Cetacea)
Dietpiscivore, carnivore (based on Delphinidae)
Reproductionviviparous (based on Odontoceti)
Ontogenymodification of parts (based on Cetacea)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti)
Primary Reference (PBDB)P. Hershkovitz. 1966. Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin 246:1-259

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Grampus griseus
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
Risso's Dolphin175.33 Ma
Miocene
0 Ma
Extant

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1828Delphinus (Grampus) Gray p. 1
1837Grampus Hamilton p. 233
1846Grampus Gray p. 30
1850Grampus Gray p. 81
1863Grampus Gray p. 201
1864Grampus Gray p. 245
1866Grampus Gray p. 295
1867Grampus Flower p. 115
1868Grampus Gray p. 9
1869Grampus Scammon and Cope p. 21
1873Grayius Scott
1890Grampus Cope p. 609
1904Grampus Palmer p. 299
1904Grampus Trouessart p. 769
1912Grampus Turner p. 120
1928Grampus Weber p. 389
1929Grampus Dal Piaz p. 85
1933Grampidelphis Iredale and Troughton
1945Grampus Simpson p. 103
YearName and Author
1951Grampus Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 741
1952Grampus Sherman p. 99
1960Grampus Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1963Grampus Scheffer and Rice p. 7
1973Grampus Kasuya p. 61
1988Grampus de Muizon p. 162
1991Grampus Vidal p. 5
1997Grampus McKenna and Bell p. 386
1998Grampus Rice p. 116
1999Grampus LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2
2001Grampus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2004Delphinus (Grampus) Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2005Grampus Bianucci p. 340
2005Grampus Mead and Brownell p. 728
2009Grampus Aguirre-Fernández et al.
2011Grampus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1
2013Grampus Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1
2014Grampus Murakami et al. p. 507 figs. Figure 10
2016Grampus Marx et al. p. 140

References

Hershkovitz P. (1966) Catalog of Living Whales, United States National Museum Bulletin 246, 1-259
Gray J. E. On the cetaceous animals, The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Capt. Sir J. C. Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843 1 & 2, 1-53
Gray J. E. , Catalogue of the Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of all the species and figures of the genera. Part I. Cetacea, 1-153
Gray J. E. On the Cetacea which have been observed in the seas surrounding the British Islands, Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1864, 195-248
Gray J. E. , Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum, 1-402
Flower W. H. Description of the skeleton of Inia geoffrensis and the skull of Pontoporia blainvillii, with remarks on the systematic position of these animals in the Order Cetacea, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 6, 87-116
Gray J. E. , Synopsis of the species of whales and dolphins in the Collection of the British Museum, 1-10
Scammon C. M., Cope E. D. On the cetaceans of the western coast of North America, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 22, 13-63
Palmer T. S. (1904) Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals, North American Fauna 23, 1-984
Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929
Simpson G. G. (1945) The principles of classification and a classification of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85, 1-350
Ellerman J. R., Morrisson-Scott T. C. S. (1951) , Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946, 1-810
Sherman H. B. (1952) A list and bibliography of the mammals of Florida, living and extinct, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 15 2, 86-126
Fraser F. C., Purves P. E. (1960) Hearing in Cetaceans, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 7 1, 1-140
Scheffer V. B., Rice D. W. (1963) A list of the marine mammals of the world, United States Fish and Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 431, 1-12
de Muizon C. (1988) Les relations phylogenetiques des Delphinida (Cetacea, Mammalia), Annales de Paleontologie 74 4, 159-227
Vidal O. (1991) Catalog of osteological collections of aquatic mammals from Mexico, NOAA Technical Reports NMFS 97, 1-36
McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640
Rice D. W. (1998) Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution, The Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication 4, 1-231
Fordyce R. E., de Muizon C. (2001) Evolutionary history of the cetaceans: a review, Secondary Adaptations of Tetrapods to Life in the Water, 169-233
Bianucci G. (2005) Arimidelphis sorbinii a new small killer whale-like dolphin from the Pliocene of Marecchia River (Central eastern Italy) and a phylogenetic analysis of the Orcininae (Cetacea: Odontoceti), Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 111 2, 329-344
Mead J. G., Brownell R. L. (2005) Order Cetacea, Mammalian Species of the World, 723-743
Aguirre-Fernández G., Barnes L. G., et al (2009) Protoglobicephala mexicana, a new genus and species of Pliocene fossil dolphin (Cetacea; Odontoceti; Delphinidae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico, Boletin de la Sociedad Geologica Mexicana 61 2, 245-265
Geisler J. H., McGowen M. R., et al (2011) A supermatrix analysis of genomic, morphological, and paleontological data from crown Cetacea, BMC Evolutionary Biology 11 112, 1-33
Perrin W. F., Rosel P. E., et al (2013) How to contend with paraphyly in the taxonomy of the delphinine cetaceans?, Marine Mammal Science 29 4, 569-588 doi:10.1111/mms.12051
Murakami M., Shimada C., et al (2014) Eodelphis kabatensis, a new name for the oldest true dolphin Stenella kabatensis Horikawa, 1977 (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinidae), from the upper Miocene of Japan, and the phylogeny and paleobiogeography of Delphinoidea, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 3, 491-511 doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.816720
Marx F. G., Lambert O., et al (2016) Cetacean Paleobiology, 1-319
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