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Orcinus paleorca

Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae

Taxonomy
Orca paleorca was named by Matsumoto (1937) [no specimen number listed in Matsumoto 1937 ]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Naganuma, which is in a Calabrian marine conglomerate in the Sanuki Formation of Japan.

It was recombined as Orcinus paleorca by Hershkovitz (1966) and Kawamura (1991).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Orca paleorca Matsumoto p. 191 figs. Figs. 1 & 2
1966Orcinus paleorca Hershkovitz p. 60
1991Orcinus paleorca Kawamura p. 217
1995Orca paleorca Oishi and Hasegawa p. 496

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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
infraorderDelphinida
superfamilyDelphinoidea
familyDelphinidae
genusOrcinus
speciespaleorca()

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.

Orcinus paleorca Matsumoto 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available