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Squalodon antverpiensis

Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae

Taxonomy
Squalodon antverpiensis was named by Van Beneden (1861) [type is in the Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique at Brussels, Belgium according to Kellogg, 1923 ]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Vieux-Dieu, which is in a Langhian/Serravallian open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Berchem Formation of Belgium.

It was misspelled as Squalodon antwerpiense by Zittel (1894), Flores (1895), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Dal Piaz (1916), Kellogg (1923) and Rothausen (1968); it was corrected as Squalodon antwerpiensis by Newton (1891), Abel (1905) and Symeonidis et al. (2004).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1861Squalodon antverpiensis Van Beneden
1874Squalodon antverpiensis Brandt p. III
1874Squalodon antwerpiensis Vanden Broeck p. 147
1890Squalodon antverpiensis Cope p. 603
1891Squalodon antwerpiensis Newton p. 75
1894Squalodon antwerpiense Zittel p. 171
1895Squalodon antverpiensis Flores p. 11
1898Squalodon antverpiensis Trouessart p. 1013
1904Squalodon antverpiensis Trouessart p. 755
1905Squalodon antwerpiensis Abel p. 47
1916Squalodon antverpiense Dal Piaz p. 8
1923Squalodon antverpiensis Kellogg p. 6
1968Squalodon antverpiensis Rothausen p. 91 figs. Table 1
2004Squalodon antwerpiensis Symeonidis et al. p. 319 figs. Table 2

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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
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
Amblyoccipita
Stegoceti
familySqualodontidae
genusSqualodon
speciesantverpiensis

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.

Squalodon antverpiensis Van Beneden 1861
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available