Delphinida Temporal range:
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A Commerson's dolphin | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
Clade: | Delphinida Muizon, 1984 |
Superfamilies | |
Delphinida is a clade of cetaceans in the parvorder Odontoceti, the toothed whales. It includes all modern oceanic dolphins, porpoises, and their relatives, such as Lipotidae[2] and Iniidae.[3][1][4][5]
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Infraorder Delphinida Muizon 1984 (toothed whale)". paleobiodb.org.
- ^ "Family Lipotidae Zhou et al. 1978 (toothed whale)". PBDB.
- ^ "Family Iniidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
- ^ "Family Platanistidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
- ^ Muizon, C. (1984). "Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou) II: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Pliocene inferieur de Sud-Sacaco". Institut Français d'Études Andines Éditions Recherche sur les Civilizations Mémoire. 50: 1–188.