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Carolinacetus gingerichi

Mammalia - Cetacea - Protocetidae

Taxonomy
Carolinacetus gingerichi was named by Geisler et al. (2005). Its type specimen is ChM PV5401, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Martin Marietta Berkeley Quarry, Cross Member, which is in a Bartonian shallow subtidal limestone in the Tupelo Bay Formation of South Carolina.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2005Carolinacetus gingerichi Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. 1-24
2008Carolinacetus gingerichi McLeod and Barnes p. 93
2008Carolinacetus gingerichi Uhen p. 560
2014Carolinacetus gingerichi Uhen p. 211

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

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.

†Carolinacetus gingerichi Geisler et al. 2005
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available