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Chonecetus sookensis
Taxonomy
Chonecetus sookensis was named by Russell (1968). Its type specimen is NMC VP12095, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Carmanah Creek, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Sooke Formation of Canada.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1968 | Chonecetus sookensis Russell pp. 929-933 figs. Fig. 1-11 |
| 1982 | Chonecetus sookensis Sanders et al. p. H118 |
| 1995 | Chonecetus sookensis Barnes et al. p. 397 |
| 2006 | Chonecetus sookensis Bouetel and Muizon p. 383 |
| 2008 | Chonecetus sookensis Uhen et al. p. 611 |
| 2015 | Chonecetus sookensis Marx and Fordyce figs. Figure 2 |
| 2015 | Chonecetus sookensis Tsai and Ando |
| 2017 | Chonecetus sookensis Tsai and Kohno |
| 2018 | Chonecetus sookensis Fordyce and Marx p. 5 figs. Fig. 4 |
| 2024 | Chonecetus sookensis Hernández Cisneros and Velez-Juarbe p. 2 |
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†Chonecetus sookensis Russell 1968
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| L. G. Barnes et al. 1995 | A species of Chonecetus differing from C. goedertorum, new species, by having paired clefts on either side of the midline of the intertemporal region, smaller zygomatic process of the squamosal, smaller occipital condyles with a shallower intercondylar notch, a more arcuate anterior border of the occipital shield, more transversely expanded anterior process of periotic, posterior process of periotic short in the odontocete fashion, not extended laterally between exoccipital and squamosal. |