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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Superfamily: | Platanistoidea |
| Family: | †Allodelphinidae |
| Genus: | †Goedertius Kimura and Barnes, 2016 |
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†G. oregonensis
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| †Goedertius oregonensis Kimura and Barnes, 2016 | |
Goedertius is an extinct genusofriver dolphin from the early Miocene (Burdigalian) Nye Formation of Oregon.
Goedertius is distinguished from other allodelphinids by a depression on the posterior part of the rostrum, smaller nasal bones, wider dorsal opening of mesorostral canal on posterior part of rostrum, and dorsal exposures of frontals at cranial vertex smaller.[1]
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