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Austrosqualodon

Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae

Taxonomy
Austrosqualodon was named by Climo and Baker (1972) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-u Sepkoski's reference number: 746,1022]. It was considered monophyletic by Fordyce (1978) and Muizon (1987).

It was corrected as Australosqualodon by Whitmore and Sanders (1977); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); it was misspelled as Australosqualodon by Sepkoski (2002) and Fordyce and Roberts (2009).

It was assigned to Odontoceti by Fordyce (1978); to Squalodontoidea by Fordyce (1980) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Squalodontidae by Climo and Baker (1972), Keyes (1973), Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Fordyce (1982), Muizon (1987), Carroll (1988) and Fordyce and Roberts (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Austrosqualodon Climo and Baker pp. 66-67 figs. Fig. 2
1973Austrosqualodon Keyes p. 386
1977Australosqualodon Whitmore and Sanders p. 305
1978Austrosqualodon Fordyce p. 234
1980Austrosqualodon Fordyce p. iii figs. Table 2
1982Austrosqualodon Fordyce p. 423
1987Australosqualodon Muizon p. 13
1988Australosqualodon Carroll
1997Austrosqualodon McKenna and Bell p. 373
2002Australosqualodon Sepkoski
2009Austrosqualodon Fordyce and Roberts p. 553

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
Amblyoccipita
Stegoceti
familySqualodontidae
genusAustrosqualodon

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. †Austrosqualodon Climo and Baker 1972
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Austrosqualodon trirhizodonta Climo and Baker 1972
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available