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Peripolocetus
Taxonomy
Peripolocetus was named by Kellogg (1931). Its type is Peripolocetus vexillifer. It was considered monophyletic by Marx and Fordyce (2015).
It was corrected as Periplocetus by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Kellogg (1931), Uhen et al. (2008); to Cetotheriidae by Simpson (1945), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Whitmore and Barnes (2008); and to Balaenidae by Marx and Fordyce (2015), Berta (2017).
It was corrected as Periplocetus by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Kellogg (1931), Uhen et al. (2008); to Cetotheriidae by Simpson (1945), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Whitmore and Barnes (2008); and to Balaenidae by Marx and Fordyce (2015), Berta (2017).
Species
P. vexillifer (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1931 | Peripolocetus Kellogg p. 338 figs. Fig. 89-90 |
| 1945 | Peripolocetus Simpson p. 104 |
| 1977 | Peripolocetus Barnes p. 327 |
| 1988 | Peripolocetus Carroll |
| 1997 | Peripolocetus McKenna and Bell p. 376 |
| 2002 | Periplocetus Sepkoski |
| 2008 | Peripolocetus Uhen et al. p. 617 |
| 2008 | Peripolocetus Whitmore and Barnes p. 173 |
| 2015 | Peripolocetus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Peripolocetus 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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1991, Uhen 2004 | |||||