Amphidelphis, Lambert & Muizon & Bennion & Urbina & Bianucci, 2025

Lambert, Olivier, Muizon, Christian de, Bennion, Rebecca F., Urbina, Mario & Bianucci, Giovanni, 2025, New data on archaic homodont odontocetes from the Early Miocene of Peru reveal a second species of Chilcacetus Lambert, Muizon & Bianucci, 2015 and a Southern Hemisphere record for a northeastern Pacific species, Geodiversitas 47 (9), pp. 369-408 : 388

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a9
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:35F944F3-E250-4840-8A70-18E704567FF7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15608617
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/276487C6-2729-FF8E-C909-9EB8FE697D4C
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Amphidelphis
status	gen. nov.

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Genus Amphidelphis n. gen.

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TYPE SPECIES. — Amphidelphis bakersfieldensis ( Wilson, 1935) n. comb.

DIAGNOSIS. — Same as for the only species, Amphidelphis bakersfieldensis n. comb.

ETYMOLOGY. — From ancient Greek “ἀμΦΊ” (amphi, from both sides), in reference to the distribution of this taxon in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres (California and Peru), and “delphis ”, the Latin word for dolphin.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Eurhinodelphinidae

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