Araeodelphis

Araeodelphis is an extinct genus of river dolphin from the early Miocene of the East Coast of the United States.^[1][2]

Araeodelphis natator Temporal range: early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Whippomorpha
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Platanistidae
Genus:	†Araeodelphis Kellogg, 1957
Species:	†A. natator
Binomial name
†Araeodelphis natator Kellogg, 1957

Fossils

Remains of Araeodelphis are known from the early Miocene Burdigalian-age Plum Point Member of the Calvert Formation in Maryland.

Phylogeny

Cladistic analysis by Godfrey et al. (2017) recovers Araeodelphis as basal to the South Asian river dolphin the platanistid subfamily Pomatodelphinae.^[1]