| Andrewsiphiinae Temporal range: Eocene, 55.8–40.4 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Skull of Andrewsiphius | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Remingtonocetidae |
| Subfamily: | †Andrewsiphiinae Thewissen and Bajpai, 2009 |
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The Andrewsiphiinae is an extinct subfamily of early whales of the family Remingtonocetidae. Thiewessen & Bajpai (2009) proposed the clade when Andrewsiphius and Kuchicetus were accepted as separate genera. Kuchicetus was originally synonymized with Andrewsiphius in 2001 by Gingerich et al., but later authors, however, still accept both as separate genera.
References
- Thewissen, J.G.M.; Bajpai, Sunil (2009). "New Skeletal Material of Andrewsiphius and Kutchicetus, Two Eocene Cetaceans from India". Journal of Paleontology. 83 (5): 635–63. Bibcode:2009JPal...83..635T. doi:10.1666/08-045.1. OCLC 4908550552. S2CID 86090504.
- ^ Uhen, Mark D. (2010). "The Origin(s) of Whales" (PDF). Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 38 (1): 189–219. Bibcode:2010AREPS..38..189U. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152453. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- Gingerich, P. D.; Ul-Haq, M.; Khan, I. H.; Zalmout, I. S. (2001). "Eocene stratrigraphy and archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) of Drug Lahar in the eastern Sulaiman range, Balochistan (Pakistan)". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 30 (11): 269–319. hdl:2027.42/48661.
Further reading
- Sahni, Ashok; Mishra, Vijay Prakash (1975). "Lower Tertiary vertebrates from western India". Monograph of the Paleontological Society of India. 3: 1–48. ASIN B0007AL8UE. OCLC 3566369.
- Sahni, Ashok; Mishra, Vijay Prakash (1972). "A New Species of Protocetus (Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene of Kutch, Western India" (PDF). Palaeontology. 15 (3): 490–5. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
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| Andrewsiphiinae | |
- Bajpai, Sunil; Thewissen, J. G. M. (2000). "A new, diminutive Eocene whale from Kachchh (Gujarat, India) and its implications for locomotor evolution" (PDF). Current Science. 79 (10): 1478–82. Retrieved 9 July 2013.