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Cete

Mammalia - Cete

Taxonomy
Cete was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was reranked as the family Cete by Illiger (1811); it was reranked as the suborder Cete by Gray (1863), Gray (1864) and Gray (1866); it was reranked as the unranked clade Cete by McKenna (1975); it was misspelled as Cetae by Gray (1825), Gray (1850), Bonaparte (1850), Gill (1872), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Archibald (1998) and Hulbert and Whitmore (2006).

It was assigned to Natantia by Illiger (1811); to Pinnata by Bonaparte (1850); to Cetacea by Gray (1863), Gray (1864) and Gray (1866); to Educabilia by Gill (1872); to Monodelphia by Hay (1902); to Monodelphia by Hay (1930); to Ungulata by McKenna (1975); to Cetungulata by Archibald (1998); and to Mammalia by Linnaeus (1758), Gray (1825), Gray (1850) and Hulbert and Whitmore (2006).

Subtaxa
Pagiodon

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Cete Linnaeus p. 75
1811Cete Illiger p. 141
1825Cetae Gray p. 340
1850Cete Bonaparte p. 1
1850Cete Gray p. 1
1863Cete Gray p. 198
1864Cete Gray p. 198
1866Cete Gray p. 62
1872Cete Gill p. v
1902Cete Hay p. 585
1930Cete Hay p. 656
1975Cete McKenna p. 43
1998Cete Archibald p. 299
2006Cete Hulbert and Whitmore p. 19

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—CetungulataIrwin and Wilson 1993
orderCete
orderCete

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.

Or. Cete Linnaeus 1758
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G. †Pagiodon Peters 1870
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†Pagiodon grandis Peters 1870
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialsubc
Diet: insectivoresubc
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-09-06 20:43:42
Modified: 2005-09-06 22:44:32
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988
Collections
No collection or age range data are available