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Taxonomy
Hoplocetus curvidens was named by Gervais (1852). Its type specimen is no number, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Montpellier, which is in a Zanclean marine sandstone in the Sables à Gryphaea virleti Formation of France.
It was synonymized subjectively with Hoplocetus crassidens by Trouessart (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Scaldicetus caretti by Abel (1905).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hoplocetus crassidens by Trouessart (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Scaldicetus caretti by Abel (1905).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1852 | Hoplocetus curvidens Gervais p. 161 figs. Plate 3, Fig. 12 |
| 1880 | Hoplocetus curvidens Van Beneden and Gervais p. 340 |
| 1887 | Hoplocetus curvidens Lydekker |
| 1891 | Hoplocetus curvidens Newton p. 69 |
| 1894 | Hoplocetus curvidens Paquier p. 47 |
| 1906 | Hoplocetus curvidens Joleaud p. 380 |
| 2006 | Hoplocetus curvidens Hampe p. 65 |
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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.
†Hoplocetus curvidens Gervais 1852
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Diagnosis
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Measurements
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