Goniodelphis

Goniodelphis hudsoni is an extinct iniid river dolphin[1] known from the waters of Florida during the Miocene ~14.9—11.5 through 9.1—8.7 Ma (AEO).

Goniodelphis
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Iniidae
Genus: †Goniodelphis
Allen, 1941

The fossil specimens were found in just four phosphate mines in Polk County, Florida. These mines were:

Taxonomy

Goniodelphis was named by Allen (1941). Its type is Goniodelphis hudsoni. It was considered monophyletic by Mark D. Uhen, Ph.D. of George Mason University in 2010. It was assigned to Delphinidae by Carroll (1988); and to Iniidae by Allen (1941), Kellogg (1944), de Muizon (1988), Morgan (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Hamilton et al. (2001), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Uhen et al. (2008) and Mark D. Uhen. [2]

gollark: Then add MORE FUEL CYCLES!
gollark: Also a wind turbine for backup.
gollark: My long-term plans: The `Deus Volt` power station, consisting of enough max-size reactors to cycle through most of the renewable fuels, giant power buffers for them, power routing controls, (obviously) fuel production, and also Botania mana production.
gollark: My fission *can* do 70kRF/t or so, I mean, and my fusion 600kRF/t.
gollark: If you didn't scale up enough, it's your own fault.

References
  1. Royal Society, Evolution of river dolphins, Healy Hamilton, Susana Caballero, Allen G. Collins and Robert L. Brownell, Jr.
  2. Paleobiology Database
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.