Platanistoidea
Appearance

Taxonavigation
[edit]Classis: Mammalia
Ordo: Artiodactyla
Parvordo: Odontoceti
Superfamilia: Platanistoidea
Familiae (1 + †4): Platanistidae – †Allodelphinidae – †Squalodelphinidae – †Squalodontidae – †Waipatiidae
Name
[edit]Platanistoidea Gray, 1846
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. 1846. The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, during the years 1839 to 1843. 1: pg. Mammalia, Birds. London: E. W. Janson, 1846, 21-48. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Fordyce, R.E. 1994: Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species (Waipatiidae, new family), an archaic Late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand. Pp. 147-176 in Berta, A. & Deméré, T. (eds.) Contributions in marine mammal paleontology honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 29 PDF