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Nannocetus eremus

Osteichthyes - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Nannocetus eremus was named by Kellogg (1929). Its type specimen is UCMP 26502, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Humphreys, which is in a Messinian basinal (siliceous) sandstone in the Towsley Formation of California.

Entered
by M. Uhen on 2004-10-26; modified by M. Uhen on 2013-10-27

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1929Nannocetus eremus Kellogg pp. 451-456 figs. 1-2
1977Nannocetus eremus Barnes p. 328
2005Nannocetus eremus Bouetel p. 139
2006Nannocetus eremus Bouetel and Muizon p. 385
2008Nannocetus eremus Uhen et al. p. 613
2008Nannocetus eremus Whitmore and Barnes p. 164
2011Nannocetus eremus Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2
2013Nannocetus eremus Bisconti et al. p. 121
2014Nannocetus eremus Goldin and Startsev p. 419 figs. Figure 13
2015Nannocetus eremus Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10
2015Nannocetus eremus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2016Nannocetus eremus Marx et al. p. 22 figs. Figure 10
2018Nannocetus eremus Tanaka et al. p. 302 figs. Table 2

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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
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
Chaeomysticeti()
subfamilyCetotheriidae()
subfamilyHerpetocetinae
genusNannocetus
specieseremus

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.

Nannocetus eremus Kellogg 1929
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available