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Basilosaurus cetoides
Taxonomy
Zeuglodon cetoides was named by Owen (1839) [ANSP 12944-12949 constitute the holotype according to Spammer et al. 1995.
ANSP 12944-12949 constitute the holotype according to Spammer et al. 1995.
]. Its type specimen is ANSP 12944A, a set of vertebrae (lumbar vertebra), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ouachita River, which is in a Priabonian offshore shelf marl in the Yazoo Formation of Louisiana.
It was synonymized subjectively with Zeuglodon macrospondylus by Bronn (1853); it was recombined as Basilosaurus cetoides by Gibbes (1847), Leidy (1854), Gray and Adams (1859), Cope (1868), Leidy (1869), Hay (1902), Trouessart (1904), Hay (1930), Kellogg (1936), Sherman (1952), Mchedlidze (1970), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Uhen (2002), van Vliet (2004), Uhen (2004), McLeod and Barnes (2008), Uhen (2008), Uhen (2009), Schouten (2011), Kalmykov (2012), Uhen (2013), Uhen (2018), Smith et al. (2021).
It was synonymized subjectively with Zeuglodon macrospondylus by Bronn (1853); it was recombined as Basilosaurus cetoides by Gibbes (1847), Leidy (1854), Gray and Adams (1859), Cope (1868), Leidy (1869), Hay (1902), Trouessart (1904), Hay (1930), Kellogg (1936), Sherman (1952), Mchedlidze (1970), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Uhen (2002), van Vliet (2004), Uhen (2004), McLeod and Barnes (2008), Uhen (2008), Uhen (2009), Schouten (2011), Kalmykov (2012), Uhen (2013), Uhen (2018), Smith et al. (2021).