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Babiacetus

Mammalia - Cetacea - Protocetidae

Taxonomy

Babiacetus was named by Trivedy and Satsangi (1984). It was considered monophyletic by Uhen et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Protocetinae by Uhen (2001) and McLeod and Barnes (2008); to Georgiacetinae by Gingerich et al. (2005) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Trivedy and Satsangi (1984), Gingerich et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Bajpai and Thewissen (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Clementz et al. (2006), Bianucci and Gingerich (2011), Uhen et al. (2011), Uhen (2014), Bajpai and Thewissen (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).

Species

B. indicus, B. mishrai

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1984	Babiacetus Trivedy and Satsangi
1995	Babiacetus Gingerich et al.
1997	Babiacetus McKenna and Bell p. 370
1998	Babiacetus Bajpai and Thewissen p. 223
2001	Babiacetus Thewissen et al. p. 351 figs. Table 1
2001	Babiacetus Uhen p. 136
2005	Babiacetus Gingerich et al. p. 200
2006	Babiacetus Clementz et al. p. 360
2008	Babiacetus McLeod and Barnes p. 93
2011	Babiacetus Bianucci and Gingerich p. 1174
2011	Babiacetus Uhen et al. p. 966 figs. Figure 10
2014	Babiacetus Bajpai and Thewissen p. 5
2014	Babiacetus Uhen p. 1030
2015	Babiacetus Gao and Ni p. 156 figs. Table 1
2016	Babiacetus Marx et al. p. 100
2017	Babiacetus Berta p. 159

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Artiodactylamorpha
—	Artiodactyla	()
—	Whippomorpha
order	Cetacea
family	Protocetidae
genus	Babiacetus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Babiacetus Trivedy and Satsangi 1984

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†Babiacetus indicus Trivedy and Satsangi 1984

†Babiacetus mishrai Bajpai and Thewissen 1998

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
S. Bajpai and J. G. M. Thewissen 2014	Babiacetus has robust tooth crowns with lower premolars that are relatively wide compared to the lower molars (Table 1) and a mandibular symphysis that reaches caudal to p2.