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Orcininae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63527	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63527

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Delphinidae : Orcininae

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
infraorder	Delphinida	Muizon 1984
superfamily	Delphinoidea	Flower 1865
family	Delphinidae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Orcininae	Wagner 1846

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Orcininae	tribe	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Wagner, 1846
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Holodontidae	stated without evidence	Brandt, 1873
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Fraser and Purves, 1960
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	stated with evidence	Kasuya, 1973
Orcininae	subfamily	invalid subgroup of Globicephalinae	stated without evidence	Barnes et al., 1985
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Orcininae	subfamily	invalid subgroup of Delphinidae	stated with evidence	Rice, 1998
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	LeDuc et al., 1999
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	implied	Buchholtz and Schur, 2004
Orcininae	family	subjective synonym of Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Mead and Brownell, 2005
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Bianucci, 2005
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	stated with evidence	Agnarsson and May-Collado, 2008
Orcininae	subfamily	belongs to Delphinidae	stated without evidence	Foekens, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

Environment

marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

piscivore, carnivore (based on Delphinidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Odontoceti)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Wagner. 1846. Die Ruderfusser und Fischzigthiere. Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der natur mit Beschribungen von Johann Christian Daniel von Schrebe. Supplementband, Thiel I

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1846	Orcini Wagner p. 292
1868	Orcadina Gray p. 8
1870	Orcadae Gray p. 773
1873	Orcinae Brandt p. 227
1960	Orcininae Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26
1973	Orcininae Kasuya p. 61
1997	Orcininae McKenna and Bell p. 384
1999	Orcininae LeDuc et al. p. 639 figs. Figure 2

Year	Name and Author
2001	Orcininae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179
2004	Orcininae Buchholtz and Schur p. 384 figs. Figure 1
2005	Orcininae Bianucci p. 331
2007	Orcininae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1
2008	Orcininae Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 4.3
2008	Orcininae Foekens p. 7 figs. Table 1
2010	Orcininae Post and Kompanje p. 2
2013	Orcininae Perrin et al. p. 571 figs. Table 1

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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