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.
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Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Gray, 1846
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Platanistidae
Alternative Name
scientific
Susuidae
Hershkovitz, 1966
Ref.: P. Hershkovitz. 1966. Catalog of Living Whales. United States National Museum Bulletin 246:1-259
T. Kimura, 2018 - First squalodelphinid from the early Miocene of the Pacific realm in the Northern Hemisphere - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (38), e1493- (journal article, English)
G. Aguirre-Fernández, 2017 - Fossil Cetaceans (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Neogene of Colombia and Venezuela - Journal of Mammalian Evolution (24), 71-90 (journal article, English)
A. T. Boersma, 2017 - A new fossil dolphin Dilophodelphis fordycei provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea) - Royal Society Open Science (), - (journal article, English)
S. J. Godfrey, 2017 - The Early Miocene odontocete Araeodelphis natator Kellogg, 1957 (Cetacea; Platanistidae), from the Calvert Formation of Maryland, U.S.A - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (), e127- (journal article, English)
F. G. Marx, 2016 - Cetacean Paleobiology - (), 1-319 (book, English)
A. Boersma, 2016 - Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea - PeerJ (4), e2321- (journal article, English)
E. Kazár, 2010 - Revision of the genus Pachyacanthus Brandt, 1871 (Mammalia: Cetacea: Odontoceti) - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A (112), 537-568 (journal article, English)
O. Lambert, 2008 - Middle Miocene toothed whale with Platanista-like teeth from the Vienna Basin (Western Carpathians, Slovakia) - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palæontologie, Abhandlungen (250), 157-166 (journal article, English)
M. D. Uhen, 2008 - Odontoceti - Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America (II), 566-606 (book/book chapter, English)
L. G. Barnes, 2006 - A phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) - Beitrage zur Palaontologie (30), 25-42 (journal article, English)
J. G. Mead, 2005 - Order Cetacea - Mammalian Species of the World (), 723-743 (book/book chapter, English)
L. G. Barnes, 2002 - An Early Miocene long-snouted marine platanistid dolphin (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Korneuburg Basin (Austria) - Beiträge Paläontologie (27), 407-418 (journal article, English)
R. Reeves, 1998 - Status of the Indus River dolphin - Oryx (32), 35-44 (journal article, English)
D. W. Rice, 1998 - Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution - The Society for Marine Mammalogy Special Publication (4), 1-231 (journal article, )
O. E. Odreman-Rivas, 1997 - Lista actualizada de los fossiles de Venezuela - Vertebrados Actuales y Fosiles de Venzuela (), 231-243 (book chapter, English)
G. S. Morgan, 1994 - Miocene and Pliocene marine mammal faunas from the Bone Valley Formation of central Florida - Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore Jr., Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History (29), 239-268 (book/book chapter, )
C. Muizon, 1988 - Le polyphyletisme des Acrodelphidae, Odontocetes longirostres du Miocene europeen - Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histore Naturelle, Section C Sciences de la Terre, Paleontologie, Geologie, Minerologie (10), 31-88 (journal article, French)
P. Hershkovitz, 1966 - Catalog of Living Whales - United States National Museum Bulletin (246), 1-259 (journal article, English)
R. Kellogg, 1957 - Two additional Miocene porpoises from the Calvert Cliffs Maryland - Proceedings of the United States National Museum (107), 279-337 (journal article, )
E. C. Case, 1934 - A specimen of a long-nosed dolphin from the Bone Valley Gravels of Polk County, Florida - Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan (4), 105-113 (journal article, English)
A. B. Van Deinse, 1931 - - De fossilele en recente Cetacea van Nederland (), 1-304 (book, other)
O. P. Hay, 1930 - - Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America (390), 1-1074 (book, English)
B. S. Dombrovsky, 1925 - New species of Pachyacanthus of Manguishlak - Rept. Far-East St. Univ Vladivostock (2), 61-62 (journal article, English)
G. M. Allen, 1921 - A new fossil cetacean - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (65), 1-14 (journal article, )
G. M. Allen, 1921 - Fossil cetaceans from the Florida phosphate beds - Journal of Mammalogy (2), 144-159 (journal article, English)
E. C. Case, 1904 - Systematic Paleontology: Mammalia - Maryland Geological Survey Miocene: Text (), 1-58 (book/book chapter, English)
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)
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)
J. F. Brandt, 1872 - Bemerkungen uber die untergegangenen Bartenwale (Balaenoiden), deren Reste bisher im Wiener Becken gefunden wurden - Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, I. Abtheilung (65), 258-264 (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)
E. D. Cope, 1869 - Third contribution to the fauna of the Miocene period of the United States - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (21), 6-13 (journal article, English)
E. D. Cope, 1868 - Second contribution to the history of the Vertebrata of the Miocene period of the United States - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868), 184-194 (journal article, English)
W. H. Flower, 1867 - Description of the skeleton of Inia geoffrensis and the skull of Pontoporia blainvillii, with remarks on the systematic position of these animals in the Order Cetacea - Transactions of the Zoological Society of London (6), 87-116 (journal article, English)
J. E. Gray, 1846 - On the cetaceous animals - The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus and Terror, under the command of Capt. Sir J. C. Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843 (1 & 2), 1-53 (book/book chapter, English)
F. Cuvier, 1836 - - De l'istoire Naturelle des Cetaces (), 1-416 (book/book chapter, English)
F. Holl, 1829 - - Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde, mit einer Einleitung über die Vorwelt der organischen Wesen auf der Erde von Dr. Ludwig Choulant (1), 1-115 (serial monograph, German)