Kentriodontidae

Kentriodontidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Delphinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Trechnotheria Infraclassis: Zatheria Supercohors: Theria Cohors: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Cladus: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Euungulata Ordo: Artiodactyla Cladus: Artiofabula Cladus: Cetruminantia Subordo: Whippomorpha Infraordo: Cetacea Cladus: Neoceti Parvordo: Odontoceti Cladus: Delphinida Superfamilia: Delphinoidea

Familia: †Kentriodontidae
Subfamiliae: Kampholophinae – Kentriodontinae – Lophocetinae – Pithanodelphininae

Genera: Kampholophos – Kentriodon – Rudicetus – Sophianaecetus – Wimahl – ?Belonodelphis – ?Liolithax

Name

• Kentriodontidae Slijper, 1936

References

Primary references

• Slijper, E.J. 1936. Die Cetaceen. Capita Zoologica 7: 1–590.
• R. Kellogg. 1927. Kentriodon pernix, a Miocene porpoise from Maryland. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 69(19):1-14
• Bianucci, G. 2001. A new genus of kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the Miocene of south Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21(3): 573–573. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0573:ANGOKC]2.0.CO;2.
• Peredo, C. M.; Uhen, M. D.; Nelson, M. D. 2018. A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early Miocene Astoria Formation and a revision of the stem delphinidan family Kentriodontidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 38(2): e1411357. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1411357.