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Mauicetus
Taxonomy
Mauicetus was named by Benham (1939).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Chaeomysticeti by Geisler and Sanders (2003); to Balaenopteridae by Fordyce and Roberts (2009); to Balaenopteroidea by Steeman (2007), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015); to Cetotheriidae by Simpson (1945), Keyes (1973), Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Berta (2017); and to Mysticeti by Harland et al. (1967), Fordyce (2003), Uhen (2008), Robinson et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Chaeomysticeti by Geisler and Sanders (2003); to Balaenopteridae by Fordyce and Roberts (2009); to Balaenopteroidea by Steeman (2007), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015); to Cetotheriidae by Simpson (1945), Keyes (1973), Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Berta (2017); and to Mysticeti by Harland et al. (1967), Fordyce (2003), Uhen (2008), Robinson et al. (2024).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1937 | Lophocephalus Benham pp. 1-3 figs. Plates 1-3 |
| 1939 | Mauicetus Benham p. 765 |
| 1945 | Mauicetus Simpson p. 104 |
| 1967 | Mauicetus Harland et al. p. 774 |
| 1973 | Mauicetus Keyes p. 390 |
| 1977 | Mauicetus Whitmore and Sanders p. 305 |
| 1988 | Mauicetus Carroll |
| 1997 | Mauicetus McKenna and Bell p. 375 |
| 2002 | Manicetus Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Mauicetus Fordyce p. 165 |
| 2003 | Mauicetus Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2007 | Mauicetus Steeman p. 880 |
| 2008 | Mauicetus Uhen p. 445 figs. Table 1 |
| 2009 | Mauicetus Fordyce and Roberts p. 553 |
| 2015 | Mauicetus Boessenecker and Fordyce p. 657 |
| 2015 | Mauicetus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Mauicetus Berta p. 168 |
| 2024 | Mauicetus Robinson et al. p. 578 |
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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. †Mauicetus Benham 1939
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†Mauicetus parki Benham 1937
Invalid names: Lophocephalus Benham 1937 [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Duntroonian to the top of the Waitakian or 27.30000 to 21.70000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Duntroonian | New Zealand (South Island) | Lophocephalus parki (45665) | |
| Chattian | New Zealand (North Otago) | M. parki (45661) | |
| Chattian | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | M. sp. (66426) | |
| Chattian | New Zealand (South Otago) | Lophocephalus parki (45653) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Japan (Yamaguchi) | M. sp. (51454) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | New Zealand (South Island) | M. parki (173285) | |
| Waitakian | New Zealand (Southland) | Lophocephalus parki (45666) | |
| Aquitanian | New Zealand | Mysticeti indet. (189024) |