This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
Name from
Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Grateloup, 1840
Names
English
shark toothed whale
English
shark-toothed dolphin
Other languages
scientific
Squalodon
Alternative Name
scientific
Arionius
Meyer, 1841
Ref.: H. v. Meyer. 1841. Arionius servatus, ein den Delphinen verwandtes Meeres-Säugethier aus der Molasse von Baltringen in Württemberg. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1841:315-331
scientific
Arionus
Meyer, 1841
Ref.: H. v. Meyer. 1841. Arionius servatus, ein den Delphinen verwandtes Meeres-Säugethier aus der Molasse von Baltringen in Württemberg. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1841:315-331
Pedroni, 1845
Ref.: P. M. Pedroni. 1845. Note sur une espèce du genre Dauphin. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de L'Academie des Sciences 21:1181-1181
scientific
Kelloggia
Mchedlidze, 1976
Ref.: G. A. Mchedlidze. 1976. Osnovnye Cherty Paleobiologischeskoi Istorii Kitoobraznykh
scientific
Macrophoca
Leidy, 1856
Ref.: J. Leidy. 1856. Notices of remains of extinct vertebrated animals of New Jersey, collected by Prof. Cook of the State Geological Survey under the direction of Dr. W. Kitchell. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:220-221
scientific
Phocodon
Agassiz, 1841
Ref.: L. Agassiz. 1841. Note on fossil jaw, on which is based the genus Phocodon, type P. scillae Ag. Repertorium fur Anatomie und Physiologie 1841:236-236
scientific
Rhizoprion
Jourdan, 1861
Ref.: C. Jourdan. 1861. Description de restes fossiles de deux grands mammifères constituant deux genres, l'un le genre Rhizoprion de l'ordre des Cétecés et du groupe des Delphinoides; l'autre le genre Dynocyon de l'ordre des Carnassiers et de la familie des Ca
scientific
Rhytisodon
Costa, 1852
Ref.: J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
scientific
Smilocamptus
Gervais, 1849
Ref.: P. Gervais. 1849. Sur la repartition des mammiferes fossiles entre les differents etages tertiaires qui concourent a former le sol de la France. C. R. Acad. Scie 28(21):643-647
scientific
Smilocomptus
Gervais, 1849
Ref.: P. Gervais. 1849. Sur la repartition des mammiferes fossiles entre les differents etages tertiaires qui concourent a former le sol de la France. C. R. Acad. Scie 28(21):643-647
scientific
Trirhizodon
Cope, 1890
Ref.: E. D. Cope. 1890. The Cetacea. American Naturalist 24(283):597-616
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C. Di Patti, 2014 - Gli odontoceti del Museo Geologico “G. G. Gemmellaro” di Palermo - Museologia Scientifica Memorie (13), 127-129 (journal article, Italian)
F. G. Marx, 2011 - Lost in translations – A history of systematic confusion and comments on the type species of Squalodon and Patriocetus (Cetacea, Odontoceti) - Palaeontology (54), 303-307 (journal article, English)
F. C. Whitmore, 2008 - Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina - Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication (14), 181-269 (journal article, English)
M. D. Uhen, 2008 - Odontoceti - Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America (II), 566-606 (book/book chapter, English)
A. C. Dooley, 2005 - A new species of Squalodon (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Miocene of Virginia - Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir (8), 1-43 (journal article, English)
O. Lambert, 2005 - Phylogenetic affinities of the long-snouted dolphin Eurhinodelphis (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Miocene of Antwerp, Belgium - Palaeontology (48), 653-679 (journal article, English)
B. Cahuzac, 2005 - Discovery of two teeth of Squalodon (Cetacea Odontoceti) in the Burdigalian of SW France (Martillac, Leognan). Comments about the Squalodon from Aquitaine Basin, the paleoecology of the outcrops, and the type species of the genus - Neus Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen (238), 413-451 (journal article, English)
N. K. Symeonidis, 2004 - Shark-toothed dolphin remains (Mammalia, Cetacea, Squalodontidae) from the early Miocene of Greece - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (105), 307-331 (journal article, English)
M. Delfino, 2003 - The crocodiles of the Pietra Leccese: (Miocene of southern Italy) - First Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontology Abstracts (1), 18- (abstract, )
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R. E. Fordyce, 2001 - Evolutionary history of the cetaceans: a review - Secondary Adaptations of Tetrapods to Life in the Water (), 169-233 (book/book chapter, )
G. Pilleri, 1987 - - The Cetacea of the Italian Pliocene (), 1-160 (book/book chapter, )
F. Cigala-Fulgosi, 1985 - The lower Serravallian cetacean fauna of Visiano (Northern Apennines, Parma, Italy) - Investigations on Cetacea (17), 55-93 (journal article, English)
G. A. Mchedlidze, 1976 - - Osnovnye Cherty Paleobiologischeskoi Istorii Kitoobraznykh (), - (book/book chapter, Russian)
G. Dal Piaz, 1971 - Guida dell'Instituto e del museo di Gologia e Paleontologia - Universita Degli Studi di Padova (), 1-146 (serial monograph, English)
K. Rothausen, 1968 - Die systematische Stellung der europäischen Squalodontidae (Odontoceti, Mamm.) - Paläontologische Zeitschrift (42), 83-104 (journal article, German)
R. Fabiani, 1949 - Gli Odontoceti del Miocene Inferiore della Sicilia - Padova Societa Cooperativa Tipografica (), - (book/book chapter, Italian)
K. A. Zittel, 1925 - - Text-Book of Palaeontology (3), 1-316 (compendium, English)
R. Kellogg, 1923 - Description of two squalodonts recently discovered in the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland; and notes on the shark-toothed cetaceans - Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum (62), 1-69 (journal article, English)
R. Kellogg, 1922 - Pinnipeds from Miocene and Pleistocene deposits of California - University of California Publications in Geological Sciences (13), 23-132 (journal article, )
G. Dal Piaz, 1916 - Gli Odontoceti del Miocene Bellunese Parte Seconda: Squalodon - Memoirie dell'Instituto geologico della R. Università di Padova (4), 1-94 (journal article, Italian)
T. S. Palmer, 1904 - Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals - North American Fauna (23), 1-984 (serial monograph, English)
E. L. Trouessart, 1904 - - Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition (), 1-929 (book, English)
G. Dal Piaz, 1901 - Alcuni resti di Squalodon dell'Arenaria Miocenica di Belluno - Palaeontographia Italica (6), 303-314 (journal article, Italian)
E. L. Trouessart, 1898 - - Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum (5), 665-1264 (book, English)
V. Paquier, 1894 - Etude sur quelques cetaces du Miocene - Memoires Societe Geologique de France (12), 1-20 (journal article, French)
E. D. Cope, 1890 - The Cetacea - American Naturalist (24), 597-616 (journal article, )
J. F. Brandt, 1874 - Ergänzungen zu den Fossilen Cetaceen Europa's - Mémoires de L'Academie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, VIIE Série (21), 1-54 (journal article, German)
E. Delfortrie, 1874 - Un Squalodon d'espece nouvelle dans le Miocene Superieur du Midi de la France - Actes de la Societe Linneene de Bordeaux (9), 257-263 (journal article, French)
J. F. Brandt, 1873 - Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's - Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 (20), 1-372 (journal article, German)
B. Du Bus, 1872 - Mammiferes nouveaux du crag d'Anvers - Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Letteres et des Beaux-Arts (34), 491-509 (journal article, French)
P. J. Van Beneden, 1871 - Les Phoques de la mer scaldisienne - Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres det des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (32), 5-18 (journal article, English)
J. F. Brandt, 1871 - Bericht uber den Fortgang meiner Studien uber di Cetaceen, welche das grosse zur Tertiarzeit von Mitteleuropa bis Centralasien hinein ausgedehnte Meeresbechen bevolkerten - Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale de St. Petersbourg (1871), 563-566 (journal article, German)
P. J. Van Beneden, 1865 - Recheres sur les ossements provenant du crag d'Anvers. Les Squalodons. - Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (35), 1-80 (journal article, French)
C. Jourdan, 1861 - Description de restes fossiles de deux grands mammifères constituant deux genres, l'un le genre Rhizoprion de l'ordre des Cétecés et du groupe des Delphinoides; l'autre le genre Dynocyon de l'ordre des Carnassiers et de la familie des Canidés - Annales des Sciences Naturelles (16), 369-374 (journal article, French)
P. J. Van Beneden, 1861 - Un mammifere nouveau du Ccrag d'Anvers - Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (12), 22-28 (journal article, French)
R. Molin, 1859 - Sulle reliquie d'un Pachyodon dissoterrate a Libano due ore Nord-Est di Belluno in mezzo all arenaria grigia - Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Wien. (25), 117-128 (journal article, Italian)
J. Leidy, 1856 - Notices of remains of extinct vertebrated animals of New Jersey, collected by Prof. Cook of the State Geological Survey under the direction of Dr. W. Kitchell - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (8), 220-221 (journal article, English)
F. -J. Pictet, 1853 - - Traité de Paléontologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Fossiles Considérés dans Leurs Rapports Zoologiques et Géologiques [Treatise of Paleontology or the Natural History of Fossil Animals Considered in their Zoological and Geological Relationships] (1), xiv-584 (book, English)
P. Gervais, 1852 - - Zoologie et Paléontologie Françaises (Animaux Vertébrés) ou Nouvelles Recherches sur les Animaux Vivants et Fossiles de la France [French Zoology and Paleontology (Vertebrate Animals) or New Research on the Living and Fossil Animals of France] (1–3), 1-274+ (journal article, French)
P. Gervais, 1849 - Sur la repartition des mammiferes fossiles entre les differents etages tertiaires qui concourent a former le sol de la France - C. R. Acad. Scie (28), 643-647 (journal article, French)
P. Gervais, 1846 - Observations sur diverses espèces de mammifères fossiles du Midi de la France 253 (§ V. Sur une dent de Squalodon Grateloupii recueillie à Saint-Jean-de-Védas, près Montpellier) - Annales Des Sciences Naturelles (5), 248-265 (journal article, English)
P. M. Pedroni, 1845 - Note sur une espèce du genre Dauphin - Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de L'Academie des Sciences (21), 1181-1181 (journal article, French)
H. v. Meyer, 1843 - Mittheilungen an Professor Bronn gerichtet - Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde (1843), 698-704 (journal article, German)
L. Agassiz, 1841 - Note on fossil jaw, on which is based the genus Phocodon, type P. scillae Ag - Repertorium fur Anatomie und Physiologie (1841), 236-236 (journal article, German)
H. v. Meyer, 1841 - Arionius servatus, ein den Delphinen verwandtes Meeres-Säugethier aus der Molasse von Baltringen in Württemberg - Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde (1841), 315-331 (journal article, German)
J. P. S. Grateloup, 1840 - Description d'un fragment de machoire fossile, d'un genre nouveau de reptile (saurien) - Actes de l'Academie Nationale des Sciences Belles-Letres et Arts de Bordeaux (2), 201-210 (journal article, English)
H. v. Meyer, 1838 - Mittheilungen, an Professor Bronn gerichtet - Neus Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde (1838), 413-418 (journal article, German)