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Cetotherium polyporum
Taxonomy
Eschrichtius polyporus was named by Cope (1869) [no type specimen listed in Cope (1869, 1871)
]. Its type specimen is ANSP 12694, a mandible (posterior mandible fragment), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bells Bridge, which is in a Pliocene shallow subtidal sandstone in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.
It was recombined as Cetotherium polyporus by Trouessart (1898); it was recombined as Balaenoptera polyporum by Hay (1930); it was considered a nomen vanum by Barnes and McLeod (1984) and Uhen et al. (2008); it was recombined as Cetotherium polyporum by Cope (1895), Hay (1902), Trouessart (1904), Abel (1938) and Tarasenko and Lopatin (2012).
It was recombined as Cetotherium polyporus by Trouessart (1898); it was recombined as Balaenoptera polyporum by Hay (1930); it was considered a nomen vanum by Barnes and McLeod (1984) and Uhen et al. (2008); it was recombined as Cetotherium polyporum by Cope (1895), Hay (1902), Trouessart (1904), Abel (1938) and Tarasenko and Lopatin (2012).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1869 | Eschrichtius polyporus Cope p. 192 |
1870 | Eschrichtius polyporus Cope |
1875 | Eschrichtius polyporus Cope p. 42 |
1895 | Cetotherium polyporum Cope p. 573 |
1898 | Cetotherium polyporus Trouessart p. 1071 |
1902 | Cetotherium polyporum Hay p. 599 |
1904 | Cetotherium polyporum Trouessart p. 779 |
1930 | Balaenoptera polyporum Hay p. 575 |
1938 | Cetotherium polyporum Abel p. 7 |
2012 | Cetotherium polyporum Tarasenko and Lopatin p. 532 |
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†Cetotherium polyporum Cope 1869
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available