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Hoplocetus crassidens

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Hoplocetus crassidens was named by Gervais (1852). Its type specimen is no number, a set of teeth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chamaret, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in France. It is the type species of Haplocetus, Hoplocetus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Scaldicetus caretti by Abel (1905).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Hoplocetus crassidens Gervais p. 161
1852Hoplocetus crassidens Gervais p. 161 figs. Plate 20, Fig. 10-11
1853Hoplocetus crassidens Bronn p. 758
1853Hoplocetus crassidens Pictet p. 388
1874Hoplocetus crassidens Vanden Broeck p. 146
1880Hoplocetus crassidens Van Beneden and Gervais p. 340
1887Hoplocetus crassidens Depéret p. 275
1887Hoplocetus crassidens Lydekker p. 60
1891Hoplocetus crassidens Newton p. 68
1893Hoplocetus crassidens Depéret p. 204
1894Hoplocetus crassidens Paquier p. 47
1902Hoplocetus crassidens Hay p. 596
1904Hoplocetus crassidens Trouessart p. 773
1906Hoplocetus crassidens Joleaud p. 380
2002Hoplocetus crassidens Kazár p. 163
2006Hoplocetus crassidens Hampe p. 65

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
superfamilyPhyseteroidea
genusHoplocetus
speciescrassidens

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.

†Hoplocetus crassidens Gervais 1852
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatitesubo
Form: roller-shapedo
Ontogeny: modification of partso
Environment: marine, freshwatersubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: aquatico
Depth habitat: surfaceo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Reproduction: viviparoussubo
Created: 2005-03-06 14:21:39
Modified: 2005-09-22 15:42:08
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
Reference: Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Gelasian or 20.44000 to 1.80600 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Germany Hoplocetus crassidens (47425)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97France Hoplocetus crassidens (type locality: 57780)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82Malta Hoplocetus crassidens (81668)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Belgium (Oost-Vlaanderen) Hoplocetus crassidens (57138)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806United Kingdom (England) Hoplocetus crassidens (48093)