Acrodelphis is a genus of extinct toothed whale from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of Austria. The type and only species is A. letochae.
Taxonomy The genus Acrodelphis was erected by Othenio Abel for a variety of long-snouted odontocetes, including the type species of Champsodelphis.O. Abel. 1900. Untersuchungen Uber die Fossilen Platanistiden des Wiener Beckens. Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 68:1-36 However, no type species was designated for Acrodelphis. Abel (1905) removed Champsodelphis macrogenius from Acrodelphis and Trouessart (1906) designated Champsodelphis letochae as the type species of Acrodelphis.Abel, O., 1905. Les Odontocètes du Boldérien (Miocène Supérieur) D'Anvers. Mémoires du Musée royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3:1-155.Trouessart, M., 1906. Mammiferes. Revue Critique de Paleozoologie 4: 197-206.Kazár, E., 2003, Miocén fogascet-leletek (Cetacea: Odontoceti) a Kárpát-medencében. [Miocene toothed whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti) in the Carpathian Basin.] Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 344 pp.
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