Andrewsiphiinae

Andrewsiphiinae Temporal range: Eocene, 55.8–40.4  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull of Andrewsiphius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Whippomorpha
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	† Remingtonocetidae
Subfamily:	† Andrewsiphiinae Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009
Genera
† Andrewsiphius (Sahni & Mishra, 1975) † Kutchicetus ? Bajpai and Thewissen, 2000

The Andrewsiphiinae is an extinct subfamily of early whales of the family Remingtonocetidae. Thiewessen & Bajpai (2009) ^[1] proposed the clade when Andrewsiphius and Kuchicetus were accepted as separate genera. ^[2] Kuchicetus was originally synonymized with Andrewsiphius in 2001 by Gingerich et al., ^[3] but later authors, however, still accept both as separate genera. ^[2]

References

1. Thewissen, J.G.M.; Bajpai, Sunil (2009). "New Skeletal Material of Andrewsiphius and Kutchicetus, Two Eocene Cetaceans from India". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (5): 635–63. Bibcode:2009JPal...83..635T. doi:10.1666/08-045.1. OCLC   4908550552. S2CID   86090504.
2. Uhen, Mark D. (2010). "The Origin(s) of Whales" (PDF). Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 38 (1): 189–219. Bibcode:2010AREPS..38..189U. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152453 . Retrieved 25 July 2013.
3. Gingerich, P. D.; Ul-Haq, M.; Khan, I. H.; Zalmout, I. S. (2001). "Eocene stratrigraphy and archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) of Drug Lahar in the eastern Sulaiman range, Balochistan (Pakistan)". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 30 (11): 269–319. hdl:2027.42/48661.

Further reading

• Sahni, Ashok; Mishra, Vijay Prakash (1975). "Lower Tertiary vertebrates from western India". Monograph of the Paleontological Society of India. 3: 1–48. ASIN   B0007AL8UE. OCLC   3566369.
• Sahni, Ashok; Mishra, Vijay Prakash (1972). "A New Species of Protocetus (Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene of Kutch, Western India". Palaeontology. 15 (3): 490–495.
• Bajpai, Sunil; Thewissen, J. G. M. (2000). "A new, diminutive Eocene whale from Kachchh (Gujarat, India) and its implications for locomotor evolution" (PDF). Current Science. 79 (10): 1478–82.