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Taxonomy
Hoplocetus curvidens was named by Gervais (1852). Its type specimen is no number, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Montpellier, which is in a Zanclean marine sandstone in the Sables à Gryphaea virleti Formation of France.
It was synonymized subjectively with Hoplocetus crassidens by Trouessart (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Scaldicetus caretti by Abel (1905).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hoplocetus crassidens by Trouessart (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Scaldicetus caretti by Abel (1905).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1852 | Hoplocetus curvidens Gervais p. 161 figs. Plate 3, Fig. 12 |
1880 | Hoplocetus curvidens Van Beneden and Gervais p. 340 |
1887 | Hoplocetus curvidens Lydekker |
1891 | Hoplocetus curvidens Newton p. 69 |
1894 | Hoplocetus curvidens Paquier p. 47 |
1906 | Hoplocetus curvidens Joleaud p. 380 |
2006 | Hoplocetus curvidens Hampe p. 65 |
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†Hoplocetus curvidens Gervais 1852
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available