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Taxonomy
Parapontoporia was named by Barnes (1984). Its type is Parapontoporia pacifica. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).
It was corrected as Parapontoparia by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Parapontoporiinae by Barnes (1984), Barnes (1985) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Pontoporiidae by Carroll (1988) and Hamilton et al. (2001); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Platanistoidea by Geisler and Sanders (2003); to Parapontoporiidae by Cozzuol (2010); and to Lipotidae by de Muizon (1988), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Uhen et al. (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Boessenecker (2013), Boessenecker and Poust (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was corrected as Parapontoparia by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Parapontoporiinae by Barnes (1984), Barnes (1985) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Pontoporiidae by Carroll (1988) and Hamilton et al. (2001); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Platanistoidea by Geisler and Sanders (2003); to Parapontoporiidae by Cozzuol (2010); and to Lipotidae by de Muizon (1988), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Uhen et al. (2008), Geisler et al. (2011), Boessenecker (2013), Boessenecker and Poust (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1984 | Parapontoporia Barnes p. 6 |
| 1985 | Parapontoporia Barnes p. 29 |
| 1988 | Parapontoparia Carroll |
| 1988 | Parapontoporia de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1997 | Parapontoporia McKenna and Bell p. 387 |
| 2001 | Parapontoporia Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178 |
| 2001 | Parapontoporia Hamilton et al. p. 554 |
| 2002 | Parapontoparia Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Parapontoporia Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
| 2008 | Parapontoporia Uhen et al. p. 585 |
| 2010 | Parapontoporia Cozzuol p. 198 |
| 2011 | Parapontoporia Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
| 2013 | Parapontoporia Boessenecker p. 872 |
| 2015 | Parapontoporia Boessenecker and Poust |
| 2016 | Parapontoporia Marx et al. p. 131 |
| 2017 | Parapontoporia Berta p. 163 |
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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.
G. †Parapontoporia Barnes 1984
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†Parapontoporia pacifica Barnes 1984
†Parapontoporia sternbergi Gregory and Kellogg 1927
†Parapontoporia wilsoni Barnes 1985
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available