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Babiacetus
Taxonomy
Babiacetus was named by Trivedy and Satsangi (1984). It was considered monophyletic by Uhen et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Protocetinae by Uhen (2001), McLeod and Barnes (2008); to Georgiacetinae by Gingerich et al. (2005), Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Trivedy and Satsangi (1984), Gingerich et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Bajpai and Thewissen (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Clementz et al. (2006), Bianucci and Gingerich (2011), Uhen et al. (2011), Uhen (2014), Bajpai and Thewissen (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Protocetinae by Uhen (2001), McLeod and Barnes (2008); to Georgiacetinae by Gingerich et al. (2005), Gao and Ni (2015); and to Protocetidae by Trivedy and Satsangi (1984), Gingerich et al. (1995), McKenna and Bell (1997), Bajpai and Thewissen (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Clementz et al. (2006), Bianucci and Gingerich (2011), Uhen et al. (2011), Uhen (2014), Bajpai and Thewissen (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1984 | Babiacetus Trivedy and Satsangi |
| 1995 | Babiacetus Gingerich et al. |
| 1997 | Babiacetus McKenna and Bell p. 370 |
| 1998 | Babiacetus Bajpai and Thewissen p. 223 |
| 2001 | Babiacetus Thewissen et al. p. 351 figs. Table 1 |
| 2001 | Babiacetus Uhen p. 136 |
| 2005 | Babiacetus Gingerich et al. p. 200 |
| 2006 | Babiacetus Clementz et al. p. 360 |
| 2008 | Babiacetus McLeod and Barnes p. 93 |
| 2011 | Babiacetus Bianucci and Gingerich p. 1174 |
| 2011 | Babiacetus Uhen et al. p. 966 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2014 | Babiacetus Bajpai and Thewissen p. 5 |
| 2014 | Babiacetus Uhen p. 1030 |
| 2015 | Babiacetus Gao and Ni p. 156 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Babiacetus Marx et al. p. 100 |
| 2017 | Babiacetus Berta p. 159 |
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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. †Babiacetus Trivedy and Satsangi 1984
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†Babiacetus indicus Trivedy and Satsangi 1984
†Babiacetus mishrai Bajpai and Thewissen 1998
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. Bajpai and J. G. M. Thewissen 2014 | Babiacetus has robust tooth crowns with lower premolars that are relatively wide compared to the lower molars (Table 1) and a mandibular symphysis that reaches caudal to p2. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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