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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | †Xenorophidae |
Genus: | †Archaeodelphis Allen, 1921 |
Species: | †A. patrius |
Binomial name | |
†Archaeodelphis patrius Allen, 1921 |
Archaeodelphis is an extinct genus of primitive odontocete cetacean from late Oligocene (Chattian) marine deposits in South Carolina, and belonging to the family Xenorophidae.
Archaeodelphis has polydont teeth, like other xenorophids.[1][2]
Archaeodelphis |
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