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Ambulocetus
Taxonomy
Ambulocetus was named by Thewissen et al. (1994) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-m].
It was assigned to Protocetidae by Thewissen et al. (1994); to Pakicetinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Cetaceamorpha by Spaulding et al. (2009); and to Ambulocetidae by Thewissen et al. (1996), Williams (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Thewissen et al. (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), van Vliet (2004), McLeod and Barnes (2008), Uhen (2010), Gingerich (2012), Gao and Ni (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Protocetidae by Thewissen et al. (1994); to Pakicetinae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Cetaceamorpha by Spaulding et al. (2009); and to Ambulocetidae by Thewissen et al. (1996), Williams (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Thewissen et al. (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), van Vliet (2004), McLeod and Barnes (2008), Uhen (2010), Gingerich (2012), Gao and Ni (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1994 | Ambulocetus Thewissen et al. pp. 210-212 figs. 1-2 |
| 1996 | Ambulocetus Thewissen et al. p. 10 |
| 1997 | Ambulocetus McKenna and Bell p. 370 |
| 1998 | Ambulocetus Williams p. 5 |
| 2001 | Ambulocetus Thewissen et al. p. suppl. |
| 2002 | Ambulocetus Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Ambulocetus Geisler and Sanders p. 27 |
| 2004 | Ambulocetus van Vliet p. 143 |
| 2008 | Ambulocetus McLeod and Barnes p. 93 |
| 2009 | Ambulocetus Spaulding et al. |
| 2010 | Ambulocetus Uhen p. 201 |
| 2012 | Ambulocetus Gingerich p. 313 figs. Figure 4 |
| 2015 | Ambulocetus Gao and Ni p. 156 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Ambulocetus Marx et al. p. 98 |
| 2017 | Ambulocetus Berta p. 158 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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