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Aetiocetus
Taxonomy
Aetiocetus was named by Emlong (1966) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-u Sepkoski's reference number: 746]. Its type is Aetiocetus weltoni. It was considered monophyletic by Geisler et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Whitmore and Sanders (1977) and Sepkoski (2002); to Aetiocetinae by Geisler and Sanders (2003) and Bouetel and Muizon (2006); and to Aetiocetidae by Emlong (1966), Mchedlidze (1976), Fordyce (1982), Orr and Miller (1983), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), McKenna and Bell (1997), Steeman (2007), Uhen (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Fitzgerald (2010), Geisler et al. (2011), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Fordyce and Marx (2016), Tsai and Kohno (2017), Berta (2017), Hernández Cisneros et al. (2017) and Fordyce and Marx (2018).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Whitmore and Sanders (1977) and Sepkoski (2002); to Aetiocetinae by Geisler and Sanders (2003) and Bouetel and Muizon (2006); and to Aetiocetidae by Emlong (1966), Mchedlidze (1976), Fordyce (1982), Orr and Miller (1983), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), McKenna and Bell (1997), Steeman (2007), Uhen (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Fitzgerald (2010), Geisler et al. (2011), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Fordyce and Marx (2016), Tsai and Kohno (2017), Berta (2017), Hernández Cisneros et al. (2017) and Fordyce and Marx (2018).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1966 | Aetiocetus Emlong p. 4 |
| 1976 | Aetiocetus Mchedlidze p. 11 |
| 1977 | Aetiocetus Whitmore and Sanders p. 305 |
| 1982 | Aetiocetus Fordyce p. 424 |
| 1983 | Aetiocetus Orr and Miller p. 96 |
| 1988 | Aetiocetus Carroll |
| 1993 | Aetiocetus Benton p. 762 |
| 1997 | Aetiocetus McKenna and Bell p. 375 |
| 2002 | Aetiocetus Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Aetiocetus Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2006 | Aetiocetus Bouetel and Muizon p. 383 |
| 2007 | Aetiocetus Steeman p. 880 |
| 2008 | Aetiocetus Uhen p. 445 figs. Table 1 |
| 2008 | Aetiocetus Uhen et al. p. 610 |
| 2010 | Aetiocetus Fitzgerald p. 370 figs. Table 1 |
| 2011 | Aetiocetus Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Aetiocetus Boessenecker and Fordyce figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Aetiocetus Marx and Fordyce figs. Figure 2 |
| 2016 | Aetiocetus Fordyce and Marx p. 114 figs. Fig. 4 |
| 2016 | Aetiocetus Marx et al. p. 105 |
| 2017 | Aetiocetus Berta p. 166 |
| 2017 | Aetiocetus Hernández Cisneros et al. p. 156 |
| 2017 | Aetiocetus Tsai and Kohno figs. Table 1 |
| 2018 | Aetiocetus Fordyce and Marx p. 5 figs. Fig. 4 |
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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.
G. †Aetiocetus Emlong 1966
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†Aetiocetus cotylalveus Emlong 1966
†Aetiocetus polydentatus Barnes et al. 1995
†Aetiocetus weltoni Barnes et al. 1995
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available