Andrewsiphiinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of mammals}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

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| fossil_range = Eocene,
{{Fossil range|55.8|40.4}}

| image = Andrewsiphius IITR-SB 2907 skull.jpg

| image_caption = Skull of Andrewsiphius

| taxon = Andrewsiphiinae

| authority = Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

}}

The Andrewsiphiinae is an extinct subfamily of early whales of the family Remingtonocetidae. Thiewessen & Bajpai (2009){{Cite journal | last1 = Thewissen| first1 = J.G.M. | last2 = Bajpai | first2 = Sunil | title = New Skeletal Material of Andrewsiphius and Kutchicetus, Two Eocene Cetaceans from India | year = 2009 | journal = Journal of Paleontology | volume = 83 | issue = 5 | pages = 635–63 | doi = 10.1666/08-045.1 | bibcode = 2009JPal...83..635T | s2cid = 86090504 | oclc = 4908550552 | author1-link = Hans Thewissen }} proposed the clade when Andrewsiphius and Kuchicetus were accepted as separate genera.{{Cite journal | last = Uhen | first = Mark D. | title = The Origin(s) of Whales | year = 2010 | journal = Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | volume = 38 | issue = 1 | pages = 189–219 | url = http://people.trentu.ca/~sarahdungan/Trent_marine_mammals/Lectures_files/whale%20evolution%20overview.pdf | access-date = 25 July 2013 | doi = 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152453 | bibcode = 2010AREPS..38..189U }} Kuchicetus was originally synonymized with Andrewsiphius in 2001 by Gingerich et al.,{{Cite journal

| last1 = Gingerich | first1 = P. D. | author1-link = Philip D. Gingerich | last2 = Ul-Haq | first2 = M. | last3 = Khan | first3 = I. H.

| last4 = Zalmout | first4 = I. S. | title = Eocene stratrigraphy and archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) of Drug Lahar in the eastern Sulaiman range, Balochistan (Pakistan) | year = 2001 | journal = Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan | volume = 30 | issue = 11 | pages = 269–319 | hdl = 2027.42/48661 }} but later authors, however, still accept both as separate genera.

References

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=Further reading=

  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Sahni | first1 = Ashok | last2 = Mishra | first2 = Vijay Prakash | title = Lower Tertiary vertebrates from western India | year = 1975 | journal = Monograph of the Paleontological Society of India | volume = 3 | pages = 1–48 | oclc = 3566369 | asin = B0007AL8UE }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Sahni | first1 = Ashok | last2 = Mishra | first2 = Vijay Prakash | title = A New Species of Protocetus (Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene of Kutch, Western India | year = 1972 | journal = Palaeontology | volume = 15 | issue = 3 | pages = 490–5|url = http://palaeontology.palass-pubs.org/pdf/Vol%2015/Pages%20490-495.pdf | access-date = 25 July 2013}}{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Bajpai | first1 = Sunil | author2-link = Hans Thewissen | last2 = Thewissen| first2 = J. G. M. | title = A new, diminutive Eocene whale from Kachchh (Gujarat, India) and its implications for locomotor evolution | year = 2000 | journal = Current Science | volume = 79 | issue = 10 | pages = 1478–82 | url = http://phsgirard.org/Biology/Evolution/WhaleEvolutionArticle.pdf|access-date=9 July 2013}}

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Category:Remingtonocetidae

Category:Transitional fossils

Category:Taxa described in 2009

Category:Mammal subfamilies

Category:Ypresian first appearances

Category:Lutetian extinctions