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Miophyseter chitaensis

Osteichthyes - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Miophyseter chitaensis was named by Kimura and Hasegawa (2022). Its type specimen is TMNH10785, a partial skeleton (cranium with isolated right ear bones (periotic, tympanic bulla, and malleus), teeth, atlas, and many bone fragments including parts of the mandible and postcra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Toyohama, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in the Toyohama Formation of Japan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2022Miophyseter chitaensis Kimura and Hasegawa p. 89 figs. Figures 2–8; Table 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
superfamilyPhyseteroidea
genusMiophyseter
specieschitaensis

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.

†Miophyseter chitaensis Kimura and Hasegawa 2022
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available