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Pelocetus
Taxonomy
Pelocetus was named by Kellogg (1965) [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 Pelocetidae 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 Marx and Fordyce (2015); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1965), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Ginsburg and Janvier (1975), Carroll (1988), Gottfried et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Otsuka and Ota (2008), Whitmore and Barnes (2008), Berta (2017); and to Panbalaenopteroidea by Leslie et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Bouetel and Muizon (2006); to Pelocetidae 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 Marx and Fordyce (2015); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1965), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Ginsburg and Janvier (1975), Carroll (1988), Gottfried et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Otsuka and Ota (2008), Whitmore and Barnes (2008), Berta (2017); and to Panbalaenopteroidea by Leslie et al. (2019).
Species
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Uhen on 2013-10-27
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1965 | Pelocetus Kellogg p. 2 |
| 1971 | Pelocetus Ginsburg and Janvier p. 178 |
| 1975 | Pelocetus Ginsburg and Janvier p. 89 |
| 1988 | Pelocetus Carroll |
| 1994 | Pelocetus Gottfried et al. p. 233 |
| 1997 | Pelocetus McKenna and Bell p. 376 |
| 2002 | Pelocetus Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Pelocetus Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2006 | Pelocetus Bouetel and Muizon p. 385 |
| 2007 | Pelocetus Steeman p. 880 |
| 2008 | Pelocetus Otsuka and Ota p. 48 |
| 2008 | Pelocetus Uhen et al. p. 616 |
| 2008 | Pelocetus Whitmore and Barnes p. 173 |
| 2011 | Pelocetus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
| 2013 | Pelocetus Bisconti et al. p. 122 figs. Fig. 28 |
| 2015 | Pelocetus Boessenecker and Fordyce figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Pelocetus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Pelocetus Berta p. 168 |
| 2019 | Pelocetus Leslie et al. p. 6 |
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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. †Pelocetus Kellogg 1965
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†Pelocetus calvertensis Kellogg 1965
†Pelocetus mirabilis Ginsburg and Janvier 1971
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Serravallian or 20.45000 to 11.63000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burdigalian | Japan (Hiroshima) | P. sp. (278374) | |
| Langhian | USA (Maryland) | P. calvertensis (45502 70834) | |
| Middle Miocene | Peru | P. sp. (201442) | |
| Serravallian | USA (Virginia) | P. calvertensis (45508 187324) | |
| Serravallian - Tortonian | France (Maine-et-Loire) | P. mirabilis (54136) |