54
2
March
303
307
10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01018.x
MARX, F. G., ALBERS, J., BERNING, B. 2011. Lost in translation - a history of systematic confusion and comments on the type species of Squalodon and Patriocetus (Cetacea, Odontoceti). Palaeontology, 54, 2, 303–307.
Felix G. Marx, Johannes Albers and Björn Berning The two odontocete taxa Squalodon grateloupii and Patriocetus ehrlichii, both the type species of their respective genera, have been at the centre of a great deal of taxonomic confusion. Originally regarded to be conspecific, these two taxa have been the subject of a bewildering taxonomic debate lasting for more than a century, which recently led to the suggestion to abandon these widely used names and replace S. grateloupii with the similar, yet independently and later proposed name S. gratelupi as the type species of Squalodon. Here, we attempt to summarise the events leading to the current confused situation in the hope of resolving this issue once and for all and argue that the name Squalodon grateloupii, as originally proposed, should be reinstated.- ABEL, O. 1913. Die Vorfahren der Bartenwale. Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 90, 155–224.
- BENEDEN, P. J. VAN 1865. Recherches sur les ossements provenant du Crag d’Anvers – Recherches sur les squalodons. Memoires de l’Académie Royal des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique, 35, 1–85.
- BRANDT, J. F. 1874. Ergnzungen zu den fossilen und subfossilen Cetaceen Europas. Mémoires de l’Academie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 21, 1–54.
- CAHUZAC, B., BUISSON, S., POMMIES, M. and ROCHER, P. 2005. Découverte de deux dents de Squalodon (Cetacea Odontoceti) dans de Burdigalien du SW de la France (Martillac, Léognan). Considérations sur les Squalodon d’Aquitaine, la paléoécologie de leurs gisements et l’espèce type du genre. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palontologie, Abhandlungen, 238, 413–451.
- COLACICCHI, R. 1960. Squalodon bariensis nel calcare bituminoso miocenico di Ragusa (Sicilia). Bolletino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 1, 17–32.
- DOOLEY, A. C. Jr 2003. A review of the eastern North American Squalodontidae (Mammalia: Cetacea). Jeffersoniana, 11, 26 pp.
- DOOLEY, A. C. 2005. A new species of Squalodon (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Miocene of eastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir, 8, 43 pp.
- DUBROVO, I. A. and SANDERS, A. E. 2000. A new species of Patriocetus (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the late Oligocene of Kazakhstan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20, 577–590.
- EHRLICH, C. 1848. Über die fossilen Sugethierreste aus den Tertir-Ablagerungen der Umgebung der Provinzial-Hauptstadt Linz in Oberösterreich. Berichte über die Mittheilungen von Freunden der Naturwissenschaften in Wien, 4, 197–200.
- FORDYCE, R. E. and MUIZON, C. de 2001. Evolutionary history of cetaceans: a review. 169–234. In MAZIN, J.-M. and BUFFRENIL, V. de (eds). Secondary adaptation of tetrapods to life in water. Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, München, 367 pp.
- GERVAIS, P. 1846. Observations sur diverses espèces de mammifères fossiles du Midi de la France (§ V. Sur une dent de Squalodon grateloupii recueillie à Saint-Jean-de-Védas, près Montpellier). Annales Des Sciences Naturelles (Zoologie), 5, 248–265.
- GRATELOUP, J.-P. S. 1840. Description d’un fragment de mâchoire fossile d’un genre nouveau de Reptile (Saurien), de taille gigantesque, voisin de l’Iguanodon, trouvé dans le Grès marin, à Léognan, près Bordeaux (Gironde). Actes de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, 2, 201–210.
- INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE (ICZN) 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Fourth edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.
- KELLOGG, R. 1923. Description of two squalodonts recently discovered in the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, and notes on the shark-toothed cetaceans. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, 62, 1–69.
- KEYES, I. W. 1973. Early Oligocene squalodont cetacean from Oamaru, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 7, 381–390.
- KLIPSTEIN, A. von 1842. Geologische Fragmente aus dem Tagebuche einer Reise durch Baiern nach den östlichen Alpen. Archiv für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Bergbau und Hüttenkunde, 16, 633–716.
- KÖNIG, A. 1911. Ein neuer Fund von Squalodon Ehrlichii in den Linzer Sanden. Jahresbericht des Museum Francisco-Carolinum, 69, 111–121.
- MEYER, H. von 1840. Letter dated 23rd July in ‘Mittheilungen an Prof. Bronn gerichtet’. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie, und Petrefakten-Kunde, 1840, 587–588.
- MEYER, H. von. 1843. Letter dated 20th July in ‘Mittheilungen an Prof. Bronn gerichtet’. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie, und Petrefakten-Kunde, 1843, 698–704.
- MEYER, H. von. 1847. Letter dated 4th January in ‘Mittheilungen an Prof. Bronn gerichtet’. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie, und Petrefakten-Kunde, 1847, 181–196.
- MUIZON, C. de 1994. Are the squalodonts related to the platanistoids? 135–146. In BERTA, A. and DEMÉRÉ, T. A. (eds). Contributions in Marine Mammal Paleontology Honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 29, 268 pp.
- PEDRONI, P.-M.. JR 1845. Ossements fossils de la Gironde. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, 14, 74–111.
- ROTHAUSEN, K. 1965. Die europischen Squalodontidae (Odontoceti) und ihre Stellung zu den übrigen Squalodontoidea, 1. Kraniales Skelett. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Johannes Gutenberg Universitt, Mainz, 856 pp.
- ROTHAUSEN, K. 1968. Die systematische Stellung der europischen Squalodontidae (Odontoceti, Mamm.). Palontologische Zeitschrift, 42, 83–104.
- SYMEONIDIS, N. K., KAZÁR, E. and ROUSSIAKIS, S. J. 2004. Shark-toothed dolphin remains (Mammalia, Cetacea, Squalodontidae) from the early Miocene of Greece. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien, 105A, 307–331.
- WHITMORE, F. C. and SANDERS, A. E. 1977. Review of the Oligocene Cetacea. Systematic Zoology, 25, 304–320.