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Miocaperea pulchra

Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae

Taxonomy
Miocaperea pulchra was named by Bisconti (2012). Its type specimen is SMNS 46978, a partial skull (Skull subdivided into two parts: one including the rostrum and the other including the neurocranium. The tympanic bullae are missing.), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Aguada de Lomas, which is in a Tortonian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru. It is the type species of Miocaperea.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Miocaperea pulchra Bisconti p. 879 figs. Fig. 2-6
2015Miocaperea pulchra Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10
2015Miocaperea pulchra Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2015Miocaperea pulchra Tsai and Fordyce p. 1
2016Miocaperea pulchra Marx et al. p. 22 figs. Figure 10

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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()
familyCetotheriidae()
subfamilyNeobalaeninae()
genusMiocaperea
speciespulchra

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.

Miocaperea pulchra Bisconti 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available