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Agaphelidae (disused)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Agaphelidae

Taxonomy
Agaphelidae was named by Gray (1870). It is extant. Its type is Agaphelus.

It was reranked as the subfamily Agaphelinae by Gill (1871) and Gill (1872).

It was assigned to Mysticeti by Gray (1870); to Balaenopteroidea by Gray (1871); to Balaenopteridae by Gill (1871) and Gill (1872); and to Anodontocete by Scott (1873).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Agaphelidae Gray p. 195
1871Agaphelinae Gill p. 126
1871Agaphelidae Gray p. 47
1872Agaphelinae Gill p. 97
1873Agaphelidae Scott p. 129

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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()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
suborderAnodontocete
familyAgaphelidae
familyAgaphelidae

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.

Fm. Agaphelidae Gray 1870
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available