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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 Cetotheriidae by Simpson (1945), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Whitmore and Barnes (2008); to Mysticeti by Kellogg (1931), Uhen et al. (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 Cetotheriidae by Simpson (1945), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Whitmore and Barnes (2008); to Mysticeti by Kellogg (1931), Uhen et al. (2008); and to Balaenidae by Marx and Fordyce (2015), Berta (2017).
Species
P. vexillifer (type species)