Phoberodon
{{Short description|Extinct genus of cetaceans}}
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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Burdigalian}}
| image = Phoberodon holotype skull.png
| image_caption = Holotype skull
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| taxon = Phoberodon
| authority = Cabrera, 1926
| type_species = †Phoberodon arctirostris
| type_species_authority = Cabrera, 1926
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- P. arctirostris Cabrera 1926 (type)
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Phoberodon is a genus of archaic odontocete cetacean from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of Patagonia, Argentina.
Taxonomy and description
Phoberodon was described in 1926 from a partially complete skeleton with skull (holotype MLP 5-4) lacking the earbones, which was found in the Colhuehuapian Gaiman Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina.A. Cabrera. 1926. Cetaceos fossiles del Museo de La Plata. Revista del Museo de La Plata 29:363-411 Subsequent authors either followed Cabrera (1926) in classifying Phoberodon as a squalodontid, or considered it a relative of Waipatia although the genus was included in any cladistic analysis of archaic odontocetes.Simpson GG. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85: 1–350M. A. Cozzuol. 1996. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285978458_The_record_of_the_aquatic_mammals_in_southern_South_America The record of aquatic mammals in southern South America.] Munchner Geowissenshaftliche Abhandlungen. A, Geoligie und Palaontologie 30:321-342Fordyce RE. 1994. Waipatia maerewhenua, new genus and new species (Waipatiidae, new family), an archaic Late Oligocene dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Platanistoidea) from New Zealand. Proceedings of the San Diego Museum of Natural History 29: 147–176.C. Muizon. 1994. Are the squalodonts related to the platanistoids?. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 29:135-146 However, known specimens lack a periotic, which incorporates most defining synapomorphies of Squalodontidae, and Viglino et al. (2018) recovered Phoberodon as distantly related to Squalodon.Mariana Viglino, Mónica R Buono, R Ewan Fordyce, José I Cuitiño, Erich M G Fitzgerald, 2018. Anatomy and phylogeny of the large shark-toothed dolphin Phoberodon arctirostris Cabrera, 1926 (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society zly053, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly053
References
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Category:Monotypic prehistoric cetacean genera
Category:Miocene genus extinctions