Delphinida

Delphinida is a clade of cetaceans in the parvorder Odontoceti, the toothed whales. It includes all modern oceanic dolphins, porpoises, and their relatives, such as Lipotidae[2] and Iniidae.[3][1][4][5]

Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis)

Delphinida
Temporal range: Oligocene to Recent[1]
A Commerson's dolphin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Clade: Delphinida
Muizon, 1984
Type species
Delphinus delphis
Superfamilies

Delphinoidea
Inioidea
Lipotoidea? (possibly extinct)

References
  1. "Infraorder Delphinida Muizon 1984 (toothed whale)". paleobiodb.org.
  2. "Family Lipotidae Zhou et al. 1978 (toothed whale)". PBDB.
  3. "Family Iniidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
  4. "Family Platanistidae Gray 1846". PBDB.
  5. Muizon, C. (1984). "Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou) II: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Pliocene inferieur de Sud-Sacaco". Institut Français d'Études Andines Éditions Recherche sur les Civilizations Mémoire. 50: 1–188.


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