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Sulakocetus dagestanicus

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Sulakocetus dagestanicus was named by Mchedlidze (1976). Its type specimen is PIN 1714, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Miatla, which is in a Chattian marine horizon in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Sulakocetus dagestanicus Mchedlidze pp. 43-57 figs. Plates XIII to XXI
1982Sulakocetus dagestanicus Sanders et al. p. H119
1994Sulakocetus dagestanicus Fordyce p. 172
2014Sulakocetus dagestanicus Tanaka and Fordyce

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
genusSulakocetus
speciesdagestanicus

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.

†Sulakocetus dagestanicus Mchedlidze 1976
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available