Goniodelphis Temporal range:Miocene | |
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Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Iniidae |
Genus: | †Goniodelphis Allen, 1941 |
Goniodelphis hudsoni is an extinctiniid river dolphin[1] known from the waters ofFlorida during theMiocene ~14.9—11.5 through 9.1—8.7 Ma (AEO).
The fossil specimens were found in just fourphosphate mines inPolk County, Florida. These mines were:
Goniodelphis was named by Allen (1941). Its type isGoniodelphis hudsoni. It was considered monophyletic by Mark D. Uhen, Ph.D. ofGeorge 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]