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Maiacetus
Taxonomy
Maiacetus was named by Gingerich et al. (2009). Its type is Maiacetus inuus.
It was assigned to Protocetinae by Gingerich et al. (2009) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Bianucci and Gingerich (2011), Uhen et al. (2011), Gingerich (2012), Uhen (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Protocetinae by Gingerich et al. (2009) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Bianucci and Gingerich (2011), Uhen et al. (2011), Gingerich (2012), Uhen (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
M. inuus (type species)
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2009 | Maiacetus Gingerich et al. p. 3 figs. Figures 1C-D, 5-9, 10C, 11B |
2011 | Maiacetus Bianucci and Gingerich p. 1174 |
2011 | Maiacetus Uhen et al. p. 966 figs. Figure 10 |
2012 | Maiacetus Gingerich p. 313 figs. Figure 4 |
2014 | Maiacetus Uhen p. 1030 |
2015 | Maiacetus Gao and Ni p. 156 figs. Table 1 |
2016 | Maiacetus Marx et al. p. 100 |
2017 | Maiacetus Berta p. 159 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available