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Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Taxonomy
Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati was named by Bisconti (2007) [SBAER = Soprintendenza per i Beni Arheologici dell'Emilia Romagna (Italy)]. Its type specimen is SBAER 240536, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rio Carbonari, which is in a Piacenzian coastal sandstone in Italy. It is the type species of Archaebalaenoptera.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati Bisconti p. 1104 figs. Figures 2-4
2009Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati Bisconti p. 152
2011Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2
2014Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati Bisconti and Francou p. 35
2015Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2020Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati Bisconti et al. p. 7
2022Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati Bisconti et al.

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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)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
Chaeomysticeti()
Balaenomorpha
superfamilyThalassotherii
familyBalaenopteridae
genusArchaebalaenoptera
speciescastriarquati

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available