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Australithax
Taxonomy
Australithax was named by Muizon (1988) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-u Sepkoski's reference number: 1066]. It is not extant. Its type is Australithax intermedia.
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Phocoeninae by de Muizon (1988), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Phocoenidae by Muizon (1988), Benton (1993), Cozzuol (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Colpaert et al. (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017) and Govender (2019).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Phocoeninae by de Muizon (1988), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Murakami et al. (2014); and to Phocoenidae by Muizon (1988), Benton (1993), Cozzuol (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Colpaert et al. (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017) and Govender (2019).
Species
A. intermedia (type species)
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1988 | Australithax Muizon |
1988 | Australithax de Muizon p. 162 |
1993 | Australithax Benton p. 762 |
1996 | Australithax Cozzuol p. 327 |
1997 | Australithax McKenna and Bell p. 390 |
2001 | Australithax Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
2002 | Australithax Sepkoski |
2014 | Australithax Murakami et al. p. 502 figs. Figure 7 |
2015 | Australithax Colpaert et al. p. 9 figs. Figure 8 |
2016 | Australithax Marx et al. p. 139 |
2017 | Australithax Berta p. 164 |
2019 | Australithax Govender p. 13 |
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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