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Pontoporia
Taxonomy
Pontoporia was named by Gray (1846). It is extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Stenodelphis by Trouessart (1898) and Simpson (1945).
It was assigned to Iniana by Gray (1846); to Delphinidae by Gray (1850), Gray (1863) and Gray (1866); to Stenonina by Gray (1868); to Platanistidae by Ameghino (1889), Cope (1890), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912) and Winge (1921); to Iniinae by Abel (1905) and Zittel (1925); to Susuidae by Hershkovitz (1966); to Pontoporiinae by Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), Barnes (1985), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Bergqvist et al. (1999) and Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); to Iniidae by Mead and Brownell (2005); to Inioidea by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Pontoporiidae by Gray (1870), Muizon (1984), Cozzuol (1985), Rice (1998), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Cozzuol (2010), Geisler et al. (2012), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Stenodelphis by Trouessart (1898) and Simpson (1945).
It was assigned to Iniana by Gray (1846); to Delphinidae by Gray (1850), Gray (1863) and Gray (1866); to Stenonina by Gray (1868); to Platanistidae by Ameghino (1889), Cope (1890), Palmer (1904), Turner (1912) and Winge (1921); to Iniinae by Abel (1905) and Zittel (1925); to Susuidae by Hershkovitz (1966); to Pontoporiinae by Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kasuya (1973), Barnes (1985), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Bergqvist et al. (1999) and Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); to Iniidae by Mead and Brownell (2005); to Inioidea by Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); and to Pontoporiidae by Gray (1870), Muizon (1984), Cozzuol (1985), Rice (1998), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Cozzuol (2010), Geisler et al. (2012), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1846 | Pontoporia Gray |
| 1847 | Stenodelphis d'Orbigny and Gervais |
| 1850 | Pontoporia Gray p. 134 |
| 1863 | Pontoporia Gray p. 200 |
| 1866 | Pontoporia Gray p. 231 |
| 1868 | Pontoporia Gray p. 4 |
| 1870 | Pontoporia Gray p. 773 |
| 1871 | Pontoporia Gill p. 125 |
| 1872 | Pontoporia Gill p. 95 |
| 1889 | Pontoporia Ameghino p. 884 |
| 1890 | Pontoporia Cope p. 604 |
| 1890 | Stenodelphis Cope p. 604 |
| 1898 | Stenodelphis Trouessart p. 1016 |
| 1904 | Pontoporia Palmer p. 557 |
| 1904 | Stenodelphis Palmer p. 645 |
| 1904 | Stenodelphis Trouessart p. 758 |
| 1905 | Pontoporia Abel p. 129 |
| 1912 | Pontoporia Turner p. 96 |
| 1915 | Stenodelphis Rovereto p. 143 |
| 1921 | Pontoporia Winge p. 8 |
| 1923 | Stenodelphis Miller p. 40 |
| 1925 | Pontoporia Zittel p. 87 |
| 1928 | Stenodelphis Kellogg p. 34 figs. Table 1 |
| 1930 | Stenodelphis Hay p. 593 |
| 1945 | Stenodelphis Simpson p. 101 |
| 1960 | Stenodelphis Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1963 | Pontoporia Scheffer and Rice p. 5 |
| 1966 | Pontoporia Hershkovitz p. 6 |
| 1973 | Pontoporia Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1984 | Pontoporia Muizon p. 68 |
| 1985 | Pontoporia Barnes p. 29 |
| 1985 | Pontoporia Cozzuol p. 46 |
| 1988 | Pontoporia de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1997 | Pontoporia McKenna and Bell p. 387 |
| 1998 | Pontoporia Rice p. 95 |
| 1999 | Pontoporia Bergqvist et al. p. 31 |
| 2001 | Pontoporia Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2002 | Stenodelphis Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Pontoporia Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
| 2005 | Pontoporia Mead and Brownell p. 739 |
| 2008 | Pontoporia Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2008 | Pontoporia Uhen et al. p. 586 |
| 2008 | Pontoporia Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 217 |
| 2010 | Pontoporia Cozzuol |
| 2012 | Pontoporia Geisler et al. p. 207 figs. Figure 7 |
| 2016 | Pontoporia Marx et al. p. 133 |
| 2017 | Pontoporia Berta p. 164 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Pontoporia Gray 1846
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Pontoporia blainvillei Gervais and d'Orbigny 1844
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Invalid names: Pontoporia tenuirostris Malm 1871 [synonym]
Invalid names: Stenodelphis d'Orbigny and Gervais 1847 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | P. sp. (52582) | |
| Pliocene | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | P. sp. (57779) | |
| Calabrian | Brazil | P. blainvillei (52644) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | P. blainvillei (223944) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | P. blainvillei (59978) | |
| Holocene | Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) | P. blainvillei (68025) | |
| Holocene | Uruguay | Delphinus blainvillei (86873) | |
| Holocene | Brazil (Sao Paulo) | P. sp. (71269) | |
| Holocene | Brazil | P. blainvillei (68026) |