Acrodelphis

Acrodelphis Temporal range: 20-16 Ma (Burdigalian) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	† Acrodelphinidae
Genus:	† Acrodelphis Abel, 1900
Type species
†Acrodelphis letochae Brandt, 1873

Acrodelphis is a genus of extinct toothed whale from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of Austria. The type and only species is A. letochae. ^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus Acrodelphis was erected by Othenio Abel for a variety of long-snouted odontocetes, including the type species of Champsodelphis . ^[2] However, no type species was designated for Acrodelphis. Abel (1905) removed Champsodelphis macrogenius from Acrodelphis and Trouessart (1906) designated Champsodelphis letochae as the type species of Acrodelphis. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

References

1. "Acrodelphis Abel, 1900". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
2. O. Abel. 1900. Untersuchungen Uber die Fossilen Platanistiden des Wiener Beckens. Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften68:1-36
3. Abel, O., 1905. Les Odontocètes du Boldérien (Miocène Supérieur) D'Anvers. Mémoires du Musée royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3:1-155.
4. Trouessart, M., 1906. Mammiferes. Revue Critique de Paleozoologie 4: 197-206.
5. Kazár, E., 2003, Miocén fogascet-leletek (Cetacea: Odontoceti) a Kárpát-medencében. [Miocene toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti) in the Carpathian Basin.] Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 344 pp.