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Gaviacetus
Taxonomy
Gaviacetus was named by Gingerich et al. (1995). It was considered monophyletic by Uhen et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Basilosauridae by Bajpai and Thewissen (1998) and Thewissen et al. (2001); to Protocetinae by Uhen (2001), Gingerich et al. (2005), McLeod and Barnes (2008) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Gingerich et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Uhen (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Uhen (2009), Bianucci and Gingerich (2011), Uhen et al. (2011), Uhen (2013), Uhen (2014), Gingerich and Cappetta (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Basilosauridae by Bajpai and Thewissen (1998) and Thewissen et al. (2001); to Protocetinae by Uhen (2001), Gingerich et al. (2005), McLeod and Barnes (2008) and Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Gingerich et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Uhen (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Uhen (2009), Bianucci and Gingerich (2011), Uhen et al. (2011), Uhen (2013), Uhen (2014), Gingerich and Cappetta (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Gaviacetus Gingerich et al. |
| 1997 | Gaviacetus McKenna and Bell p. 370 |
| 1998 | Gaviacetus Bajpai and Thewissen p. 228 |
| 2001 | Gaviacetus Thewissen et al. p. 351 figs. Table 1 |
| 2001 | Gaviacetus Uhen p. 136 |
| 2002 | Gaviacetus Uhen p. 79 |
| 2003 | Gaviacetus Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2005 | Gaviacetus Gingerich et al. p. 200 |
| 2008 | Gaviacetus McLeod and Barnes p. 93 |
| 2009 | Gaviacetus Uhen p. 93 |
| 2011 | Gaviacetus Bianucci and Gingerich p. 1174 |
| 2011 | Gaviacetus Uhen et al. p. 966 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2013 | Gaviacetus Uhen p. 5 |
| 2014 | Gaviacetus Gingerich and Cappetta p. 128 figs. Figure 16 |
| 2014 | Gaviacetus Uhen p. 1030 |
| 2015 | Gaviacetus Gao and Ni p. 156 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Gaviacetus Marx et al. p. 100 |
| 2017 | Gaviacetus Berta p. 159 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available