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Taxonomy
Diorocetus was named by Kellogg (1968) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m Sepkoski's reference number: 746]. It is not extant.
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Bouetel and Muizon (2006); to Diorocetidae by Steeman (2007); to Mysticeti by Uhen et al. (2008); to Balaenomorpha by Geisler et al. (2011); to Thalassotherii by Bisconti et al. (2013); to Chaeomysticeti by Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015); to Balaenopteroidea by Hampe and Ritsche (2011), Marx and Fordyce (2015); and to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1968), Whitmore (1984), Carroll (1988), Gottfried et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Yoshida et al. (2003), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Otsuka and Ota (2008), Whitmore and Barnes (2008), Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Bouetel and Muizon (2006); to Diorocetidae by Steeman (2007); to Mysticeti by Uhen et al. (2008); to Balaenomorpha by Geisler et al. (2011); to Thalassotherii by Bisconti et al. (2013); to Chaeomysticeti by Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015); to Balaenopteroidea by Hampe and Ritsche (2011), Marx and Fordyce (2015); and to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1968), Whitmore (1984), Carroll (1988), Gottfried et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Yoshida et al. (2003), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Otsuka and Ota (2008), Whitmore and Barnes (2008), Berta (2017).
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