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Idiocetus
Taxonomy
Idiocetus was named by Capellini (1876) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi T Plio-u]. It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Oishi and Hasegawa (1995).
It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiocetus by True (1912).
It was assigned to Balaenopteridae by Matsumoto (1926), Kellogg (1928), Kellogg (1931), Simpson (1945), Pilleri (1987) and Carroll (1988); to Balaenopterinae by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Cetotheriidae by Oishi and Hasegawa (1995) and Whitmore and Barnes (2008); and to Balaenidae by Palmer (1904), Churchill et al. (2007), Steeman (2010), Cioppi (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiocetus by True (1912).
It was assigned to Balaenopteridae by Matsumoto (1926), Kellogg (1928), Kellogg (1931), Simpson (1945), Pilleri (1987) and Carroll (1988); to Balaenopterinae by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Cetotheriidae by Oishi and Hasegawa (1995) and Whitmore and Barnes (2008); and to Balaenidae by Palmer (1904), Churchill et al. (2007), Steeman (2010), Cioppi (2014), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1876 | Idiocetus Capellini p. 12 |
| 1898 | Idiocetus Trouessart p. 1076 |
| 1904 | Idiocetus Palmer p. 349 |
| 1904 | Idiocetus Trouessart p. 782 |
| 1926 | Idiocetus Matsumoto p. 25 |
| 1926 | Idiocetus tsugarensis Matsumoto p. 25 figs. Plate III |
| 1928 | Idiocetus Kellogg p. 35 figs. Table 1 |
| 1931 | Idiocetus Kellogg p. 311 |
| 1945 | Idiocetus Simpson p. 105 |
| 1987 | Idiocetus Pilleri p. 77 |
| 1988 | Idiocetus Carroll |
| 1995 | Idiocetus Oishi and Hasegawa p. 495 figs. Table 1 |
| 1997 | Idiocetus McKenna and Bell p. 377 |
| 2002 | Idiocetus Sepkoski |
| 2007 | Idiocetus Churchill et al. p. 48 |
| 2008 | Idiocetus Whitmore and Barnes p. 173 |
| 2010 | Idiocetus Steeman p. 64 figs. Table 1 |
| 2014 | Idiocetus Cioppi p. 88 |
| 2016 | Idiocetus Marx et al. p. 108 |
| 2017 | Idiocetus Berta p. 167 |
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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.
G. †Idiocetus Capellini 1876
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†Idiocetus guicciardinii Capellini 1876
Invalid names: Idiocetus tsugarensis Matsumoto 1926 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Villanyian or 11.60800 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Japan (Amoroi) | I. sp. (46045) | |
| Villanyian | Italy (Pisa) | I. guicciardinii (44089) |