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Hemisyntrachelus cortesii

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Delphinus cortesii was named by Fischer (1829). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is La Torrazza, which is in a Zanclean marine horizon in Italy. It is the type species of Hemisyntrachelus.

It was recombined as Phocaena cortesii by Laurillard (1844); it was synonymized subjectively with Arionius servatus by Bronn (1853); it was recombined as Delphinapterus (Hemisyntrachelus) cortesii by Brandt (1873); it was recombined as Tursiops cortesii by Capellini (1882), Sacco (1891), Sacco (1893), Trouessart (1904), Pilleri (1985), Pilleri (1987) and Barnes (1990); it was recombined as Delphinapterus cortesii by Trouessart (1898); it was recombined as Tursiops cortesi by Pilleri (1979); it was recombined as Hemisyntrachelus cortesii by Bianucci (1996), Bianucci (1996), Bianucci (1997), Post and Bosselaer (2005), Murakami et al. (2014) and Ormezzano and Lanzetti (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1829Delphinus cortesii Fischer p. 512
1832Delphinus cortesii Meyer p. 99
1842Delphinus cortesi Balsamo Crivelli p. 6
1844Phocaena cortesii Laurillard p. 634
1853Delphinus cortesii Pictet p. 382
1873Delphinapterus (Hemisyntrachelus) cortesii Brandt p. 240
1876Delphinus cortesii Lawley p. 107
1882Tursiops cortesii Capellini p. 12
1891Tursiops cortesii Sacco
1891Tursiops cortesii pedemontana Sacco p. 708
1893Tursiops cortesii Sacco p. 14
1898Tursiops capellinii Del Prato p. 12 figs. Plate 1
1898Delphinapterus cortesii Trouessart p. 1051
1898Tursiops capellinii del Prato p. 12
1904Tursiops cortesii Trouessart p. 764
1979Tursiops cortesi Pilleri p. 71
1985Tursiops cortesii Pilleri p. 15
1985Tursiops cortesii capellinii Pilleri p. 15
1987Tursiops cortesii Pilleri p. 53
1987Tursiops cortesii capellinii Pilleri p. 95
1990Tursiops capellinii Barnes p. 13
1990Tursiops cortesii Barnes p. 13
1996Hemisyntrachelus cortesii Bianucci p. 64
1996Hemisyntrachelus pisanus Bianucci pp. 91-92
1997Hemisyntrachelus cortesii Bianucci p. 76
1997Hemisyntrachelus pisanus Bianucci p. 77
2005Hemisyntrachelus cortesii Post and Bosselaer p. 44
2014Hemisyntrachelus cortesii Murakami et al. p. 492 figs. Table 1
2014Hemisyntrachelus cortesii Ormezzano and Lanzetti p. 20

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
genusHemisyntrachelus()
speciescortesii()

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.

Hemisyntrachelus cortesii Fischer 1829
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Invalid names: Hemisyntrachelus pisanus Bianucci 1996 [synonym], Tursiops capellinii Del Prato 1898 [synonym], Tursiops cortesii pedemontana Sacco 1891 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatitesubo
Form: roller-shapedo
Ontogeny: modification of partso
Environment: marine, freshwatersubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: aquatico
Depth habitat: surfaceo
Diet: piscivoref
Diet 2: carnivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubo
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-06-08 12:11:09
Source: f = family, subo = suborder, o = order
References: Nowak 1991, Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Piacenzian or 5.33300 to 2.58800 Ma

Collections (17 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Miocene - Pliocene23.03 - 2.588Italy Tursiops cortesii (53930)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Italy Tursiops cortesii (54157 57731 85022)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Italy (Piacenza) Delphinus cortesii, Tursiops capellinii (type locality: 67108)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Italy (Asti) Tursiops cortesii (86305)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Italy Delphinus cortesii (58418) Hemisyntrachelus cortesii (52066) Tursiops cortesii (48654 49688 76977)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Italy (Tuscany) Tursiops cortesii (48645)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Italy (Tuscany) Tursiops cortesii (48652)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Italy Delphinus cortesii (47428) Hemisyntrachelus cortesii (55759) Tursiops cortesii (71101)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Italy (Piacenza) Hemisyntrachelus cortesii, Tursiops capellinii (55542)