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Dalpiazina ✝

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Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4832371	https://www.gbif.org/species/4832371
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63680	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63680

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Dalpiazinidae : Dalpiazina

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Cetacea	Brisson 1762
-	Pelagiceti	Uhen 2008
-	Neoceti	Fordyce and de Muizon 2001
suborder	Odontoceti	Flower 1867
superfamily	Platanistoidea	Simpson 1945
family	Dalpiazinidae	Muizon 1988
genus	Dalpiazina	de Muizon 1988

Scientific Name

Dalpiazina de Muizon, 1988

Name Published In

Bull Mus Natl Hist Nat Sect C Sci Terre Paleontol Geol Mineral 10 (1)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Dalpiazina	genus	belongs to Dalpiazinidae	stated without evidence	Muizon, 1988
Dalpiazina	genus	belongs to Dalpiazinidae	stated with evidence	Muizon, 1994
Dalpiazina	genus	belongs to Dalpiazinidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Dalpiazina	genus	belongs to Dalpiazinidae	stated without evidence	Fordyce and de Muizon, 2001
Dalpiazina	genus	belongs to Dalpiazinidae	stated with evidence	Marx et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 20.4 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

carnivore (based on Odontoceti)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Odontoceti)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Muizon. 1988. Le polyphyletisme des Acrodelphidae, Odontocetes longirostres du Miocene europeen. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histore Naturelle, Section C Sciences de la Terre, Paleontologie, Geologie, Minerologie 10:31-88

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Champsodelphis ombonii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Dalpiazinia Muizon, 1988	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Dalpiazinidae : *Dalpiazinia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1988	Dalpiazina Muizon p. 66
1993	Dalpiazinia Benton p. 762
1994	Dalpiazina Muizon p. 141
1997	Dalpiazina McKenna and Bell p. 389
2001	Dalpiazina Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178
2002	Dalpiazina Bianucci and Landini p. 21
2014	Dalpiazina Fornasiero and Del Vavero p. 67
2016	Dalpiazina Marx et al. p. 120

References

Muizon C. (1988) Le polyphyletisme des Acrodelphidae, Odontocetes longirostres du Miocene europeen, Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histore Naturelle, Section C Sciences de la Terre, Paleontologie, Geologie, Minerologie 10, 31-88

Benton M. J. (1993) , The Fossil Record 2, 1-845

Muizon C. (1994) Are the squalodonts related to the platanistoids?, Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29, 135-146

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

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., Landini W. (2002) Change in diversity, ecological significance and biogeographical relationships of the Mediterranean Miocene toothed whale fauna, Geobios Mémoire spécial 24, 19-28

Fornasiero M., Del Vavero L. (2014) I Cetacei fossili del Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia dell’Università di Padova, Museologia Scientifica Memorie 13, 62-69

Marx F. G., Lambert O., et al (2016) Cetacean Paleobiology, 1-319

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull Mus Natl Hist Nat Sect C Sci Terre Paleontol Geol Mineral 10 (1) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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