Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae

Alternative combinations: Patriocetus grateloupii, Squalodon grateloupi

Synonyms: Basilosaurus squalodon Pedroni 1845 [objective synonym], Delphinoides gratelupi Pedroni 1845 [objective synonym], Rhizoprion bariensis Jourdan 1861, Smilocamptus bourgueti Gervais 1849, Smilocomptus bourgueti Gervais 1849, Smilocomptus burgueti Gervais 1849, Squalodon bariense Jourdan 1861, Squalodon bariensis Jourdan 1861, Squalodon bariensis bariensis Jourdan 1861, Squalodon barriense Jourdan 1861, Squalodon burgueti Gervais 1849, Squalodon grateloupii Gervais 1846 [objective synonym], Squalodon gratelupi Pedroni 1845 [objective synonym], Squalodon kelloggi Rothausen 1968, Squalodon typicus Kellogg 1923, Squalodon zitteli Paquier 1894

Full reference: H. von Meyer. 1843. Mittheilungen an Professor Bronn gerichtet. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1843:698-704

Belongs to Squalodon according to M. D. Nelson et al. 2025

See also Bianucci and Landini 2002, Brandt 1873, Brandt 1874, Bronn 1853, Cahuzac et al. 2005, Cope 1890, Dal Piaz 1901, Dal Piaz 1916, Dal Piaz 1929, Depéret 1887, Di Patti 2014, Flot 1895, Fornasiero and Del Vavero 2014, Gervais 1846, Gervais 1849, Gervais 1852, Gibbes 1847, Gray and Adams 1859, Hay 1902, Joleaud 1906, Jourdan 1861, Kellogg 1923, Lortet 1887, Lydekker 1887, Marx et al. 2011, Muizon 1990, Nelson et al. 2025, Paquier 1894, Pictet 1853, Rothausen 1968, Scott 1873, Symeonidis et al. 2004, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Uhen et al. 2008, Van Beneden 1865, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880, von Meyer 1843, Zittel 1877 and Zittel 1894

Sister taxa: Phoca pedronii, Priscodelphinus validus, Squalodon antverpiensis, Squalodon barbarus, Squalodon bellunensis, Squalodon calvertensis, Squalodon murdochi, Squalodon peregrinus, Squalodon quaternarium, Squalodon servatus, Squalodon whitmorei, Rhytisodon tuberculatus, Trirhizodon gervaisii, Trirhizodon suessii

Type specimens:

• Squalodon grateloupii: OL 1999/2, a skull. Its type locality is Leognan, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in France.
• Delphinoides gratelupi: Its type locality is Leognan, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in France.
• Squalodon bariensis: Its type locality is Village troglodytique de Barry, which is in a Burdigalian carbonate limestone in France.
• Squalodon burgueti: no specimen number listed, a tooth. Its type locality is Salles, which is in a Serravallian marine marl in the Sables des Landes Formation of France.
• Squalodon grateloupii: Its type locality is Linz, which is in a Chattian open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Linzer Sanden Formation of Austria.
• Squalodon kelloggi: Its type locality is Leognan, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in France.
• Squalodon typicus:
• Squalodon zitteli: Its type locality is Bleichenbach, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in Germany.

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

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