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Cetotherioidea

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Cetotherioidea was named by Steeman (2007). It is extant.

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Chaeomysticeti by Bisconti et al. (2013).

It was assigned to Mysticeti by Rice (2009); to Chaeomysticeti by Steeman (2007) and Steeman (2010); to Mysticeti by Tarasenko and Lopatin (2012); and to Plicogulae by Gol'din and Steeman (2015) and Gol'din (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Cetotherioidea Steeman p. 880
2009Cetotherioidea Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1
2010Cetotherioidea Steeman p. 74
2012Cetotherioidea Tarasenko and Lopatin p. 532
2015Cetotherioidea Gol'din and Steeman p. 12
2018Cetotherioidea Gol'din p. 6

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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
suborderMysticeti
Chaeomysticeti()
Plicogulae
superfamilyCetotherioidea
superfamilyCetotherioidea

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.

Superfm. Cetotherioidea Steeman 2007
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G. †Otradnocetus Mchedlidze 1984
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Otradnocetus virodovi Mchedlidze 1984
G. †Parietobalaena Kellogg 1924
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Parietobalaena affinis Van Beneden and Gervais 1868
Parietobalaena campiniana Bisconti et al. 2013
Parietobalaena laxata Van Beneden 1880
Parietobalaena palmeri Kellogg 1924
Parietobalaena securis Kellogg 1931
Parietobalaena yamaokai Otsuka and Ota 2008
G. †Pinocetus Czyzewska and Ryziewicz 1976
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Pinocetus polonicus Czyzewska and Ryziewicz 1976
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available