Albireonidae

Albireonidae is a monotypic group of extinct porpoise-like whales containing the single genus Albireo.[1][2] These medium-sized, fossil dolphins are very rare and known only from temperate latitudes around the margin of the eastern North Pacific Ocean.[3]

Albireonidae
Temporal range: Messinian-Piacenzian, 7.246–2.588 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Superfamily: Delphinoidea
Family: †Albireonidae
Barnes, 1984
Genera
  • †Albireo Barnes, 1984

References
  1. Barnes, L. G. 1984. Fossil odontocetes (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Almejas Formation, Isla Cedros, Mexico. PaleoBios 42: 1–46.
  2. Stephen Leatherwood; Randall R. Reeves (2 December 2012). The Bottlenose Dolphin. Elsevier Science. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-0-323-13961-8. This group apparently evolved directly from squalodontids. The currently recognized families in the Delphinoidea are the extinct Miocene Kentriodontidae and Albireonidae, and the extant Delphinidae (true dolphins), Phocoenidae (porpoises), ...
  3. Science Series. Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art. 2008. pp. 147–.


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