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Xiphiacetus cristatus

Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae

Taxonomy
Priscodelphinus cristatus was named by Du Bus (1872). Its type specimen is IRSNB 3234-M.361, a partial skeleton (occipital condyles), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium. It is the type species of Priscodelphinus.

It was recombined as Eurhinodelphis cristatus by Abel (1902), Trouessart (1904), Abel (1905), Bianucci (1996), Bianucci and Landini (2002) and Lambert (2005); it was recombined as Xiphiacetus cristatus by Lambert (2005), Uhen et al. (2008), Hastings and Dooley (2017), Lambert and Goolaerts (2022) and Godfrey and Lambert (2023).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Priscodelphinus cristatus Du Bus p. 497
1874Priscodelphinus cristatus Vanden Broeck p. 146
1880Priscodelphinus cristatus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 495
1898Priscodelphinus cristatus Trouessart p. 1023
1902Eurhinodelphis cristatus Abel p. 146 figs. pl. 15, figs 1, 2; pl. 16; pl. 17, fig.
1904Eurhinodelphis cristatus Trouessart p. 761
1905Eurhinodelphis cristatus Abel p. 121
1979Eurhinodelphis ashbyi Myrick p. 249 figs. Plats 65-66, Fig. 17
1979Eurhinodelphis whitmorei Myrick p. 254 figs. Plates 67, Fig. 18
1996Eurhinodelphis cristatus Bianucci p. 66
2002Eurhinodelphis cristatus Bianucci and Landini p. 21
2005Xiphiacetus cristatus Lambert p. 213
2005Eurhinodelphis cristatus Lambert p. 654
2008Xiphiacetus cristatus Uhen et al. p. 573
2017Xiphiacetus cristatus Hastings and Dooley p. 83
2022Xiphiacetus cristatus Lambert and Goolaerts
2023Xiphiacetus cristatus Godfrey and Lambert p. 101

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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
familyEurhinodelphinidae()
genusXiphiacetus
speciescristatus()

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.

Xiphiacetus cristatus Du Bus 1872
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Invalid names: Eurhinodelphis ashbyi Myrick 1979 [synonym], Eurhinodelphis whitmorei Myrick 1979 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available