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Protocetus
Taxonomy
Protocetus was named by Fraas (1904) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m-l T Eo-m-u Sepkoski's reference number: 1022
Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m Sepkoski's reference number: 1066]. It was considered monophyletic by Slijper (1936).
It was assigned to Zeuglodontidae by Abel (1914), Abel (1919), Winge (1921) and Zittel (1925); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Protocetinae by Gingerich and Russell (1990), Thewissen et al. (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Uhen (2001), Gingerich et al. (2005), McLeod and Barnes (2008) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Stromer (1908), Miller (1923), Kellogg (1928), Slijper (1936), Kellogg (1936), Simpson (1945), Sahni and Mishra (1975), West (1980), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Geisler and Sanders (2003), van Vliet (2004), Uhen et al. (2011), Gingerich (2012), Uhen (2014), Fornasiero and Del Vavero (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Zeuglodontidae by Abel (1914), Abel (1919), Winge (1921) and Zittel (1925); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Protocetinae by Gingerich and Russell (1990), Thewissen et al. (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Uhen (2001), Gingerich et al. (2005), McLeod and Barnes (2008) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Stromer (1908), Miller (1923), Kellogg (1928), Slijper (1936), Kellogg (1936), Simpson (1945), Sahni and Mishra (1975), West (1980), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Geisler and Sanders (2003), van Vliet (2004), Uhen et al. (2011), Gingerich (2012), Uhen (2014), Fornasiero and Del Vavero (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1904 | Protocetus Fraas p. 201 figs. Plate I, Fig. 1-2; Plate II, Fig. 1-9; Plate III, Fig. 1-12 |
| 1908 | Protocetus Stromer p. 148 |
| 1914 | Protocetus Abel p. 220 |
| 1919 | Protocetus Abel p. 751 |
| 1921 | Protocetus Winge p. 7 |
| 1923 | Protocetus Miller p. 40 |
| 1925 | Protocetus Zittel p. 84 |
| 1928 | Protocetus Kellogg p. 32 figs. Table 1 |
| 1936 | Protocetus Kellogg p. 235 |
| 1936 | Protocetus Slijper |
| 1945 | Protocetus Simpson p. 100 |
| 1975 | Protocetus Sahni and Mishra p. 18 |
| 1980 | Protocetus West p. 515 |
| 1988 | Protocetus Carroll |
| 1990 | Protocetus Gingerich and Russell p. 18 |
| 1993 | Protocetus Benton p. 761 |
| 1996 | Protocetus Thewissen et al. p. 71 figs. Figure 31 |
| 1997 | Protocetus McKenna and Bell p. 370 |
| 2001 | Protocetus Uhen p. 136 |
| 2002 | Procetus Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Protocetus Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2004 | Protocetus van Vliet p. 143 |
| 2005 | Protocetus Gingerich et al. p. 200 |
| 2008 | Protocetus McLeod and Barnes p. 93 |
| 2011 | Protocetus Uhen et al. p. 966 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2012 | Protocetus Gingerich p. 313 |
| 2014 | Protocetus Fornasiero and Del Vavero p. 65 |
| 2014 | Protocetus Uhen p. 1030 |
| 2015 | Protocetus Gao and Ni p. 156 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Protocetus Marx et al. p. 100 |
| 2017 | Protocetus Berta p. 159 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available