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Platyosphys Temporal range: Middle Eocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Basilosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Basilosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Platyosphys Kellogg, 1936 |
| Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Basilotritus? Gol'din and Zvonok, 2013 | |
Platyosphys is a genus of basilosaurine basilosaurid from Middle Eocene (Bartonian) of the eastern United States, Western Sahara, and Ukraine.
Taxonomy[edit]
The type species, Platyosphys paulsoni, was originally described as Zeuglodon paulsoni in 1873 on the basis of several vertebrae from a Bartonian-age horizon in southern Ukraine.[1] In his 1936 monograph regarding Archaeoceti, Remington Kellogg recognized the distinct nature of the taxon and coined the new genus Platyosphys for Z. paulsoni.[2] Another new species of Platyosphys, P. einori, was coined for vertebrae, a scapula, and rib fragments in 2001.[3]
In the original description of Basilotritus, Platyosphys and its constituent species were considered nomina dubia because their material was considered insufficiently diagnostic to generic or specific level.[4] However, a 2015 paper describing archaeocetes from the Western Sahara described a new species, P. aithai, and reiterated the diagnostic nature of the type species of Platyosphys, suggesting that Basilotritus might be a synonym of Platyosphys.[5]
References[edit]
^ J. F. Brandt. 1873. Uber bisher in Russland gefundene Reste von Zeuglodonten. Melanges biologiques Bulletin de l'Academie imperials des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 9:111-112
^ R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366
^ V. Gritsenko. 2001. New species Platiosphys [Platyosphys] einori (Archaeoceti) from Oligocenic deposits of Kyiv. Visnyk Heolohila Kyivskyi Natsionalyi Universytet Imeni Tarasa Shevchenka 20:17-20
^ Pavel Gol'din and Evgenij Zvonok (2013). "Basilotritus uheni, a New Cetacean (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Late Middle Eocene of Eastern Europe". Journal of Paleontology 87 (2): 254–268. doi:10.1666/12-080R.1.
^ Philip D. Gingerich and Samir Zouhri (2015). "New fauna of archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Bartonian middle Eocene of southern Morocco". Journal of African Earth Sciences 111: 273–286. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.08.006.
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| Ambulocetidae |
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