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Ambulocetidae
Taxonomy
Ambulocetidae was named by Thewissen et al. (1996). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Archaeoceti by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Protocetoidea by Rice (1998), Gingerich (2005) and Rice (2009); to Cetacea by Thewissen et al. (1996), Thewissen et al. (2001), Thewissen et al. (2001) and Uhen (2010); to Archaeoceti by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Rice (2002), Fordyce (2003), Geisler and Sanders (2003), McLeod and Barnes (2008), Gingerich (2012) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Cetacea by van Vliet (2004), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Archaeoceti by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Protocetoidea by Rice (1998), Gingerich (2005) and Rice (2009); to Cetacea by Thewissen et al. (1996), Thewissen et al. (2001), Thewissen et al. (2001) and Uhen (2010); to Archaeoceti by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Rice (2002), Fordyce (2003), Geisler and Sanders (2003), McLeod and Barnes (2008), Gingerich (2012) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Cetacea by van Vliet (2004), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1996 | Ambulocetidae Thewissen et al. p. 9 |
| 1998 | Ambulocetidae Rice |
| 2001 | Ambulocetidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 176 |
| 2001 | Ambulocetidae Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
| 2002 | Ambulocetidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1 |
| 2003 | Ambulocetidae Fordyce p. 156 figs. Figure 9.1 |
| 2003 | Ambulocetidae Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2004 | Ambulocetidae van Vliet p. 143 |
| 2005 | Ambulocetidae Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1 |
| 2007 | Ambulocetidae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1 |
| 2008 | Ambulocetidae McLeod and Barnes p. 93 |
| 2009 | Ambulocetidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1 |
| 2010 | Ambulocetidae Uhen p. 201 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2012 | Ambulocetidae Gingerich p. 313 figs. Figure 4 |
| 2015 | Ambulocetidae Gao and Ni p. 156 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Ambulocetidae Marx et al. p. 98 |
| 2017 | Ambulocetidae Berta p. 158 |
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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.
Fm. †Ambulocetidae Thewissen et al. 1996
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G. †Gandakasia Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
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†Gandakasia potens Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Lutetian | Pakistan | Ambulocetus natans (95147) Gandakasia potens (95148) | |
| Lutetian | Pakistan (Punjab) | Ambulocetus natans (45527) Gandakasia potens (49002) |