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Diaphorocetus
Taxonomy
Diaphorocetus was named by Ameghino (1894) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-l].
It was synonymized subjectively with Hypocetus by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Pontoplanodidae by Ameghino (1894); to Physeterinae by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Physeterida by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Hoplocetinae by Simpson (1945), Muizon (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Hampe (2006) and Toscano et al. (2013); to Physeteridae by Ameghino (1901), Allen (1921), Kellogg (1928), Romero-Herrera et al. (1973), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Cozzuol (1996), Kazár (2002) and Collareta et al. (2017); to Panphyseteroidea by Berta (2017); and to Physeteroidea by Lambert et al. (2008), Perez et al. (2011), Marx et al. (2016), Paolucci et al. (2020) and Lambert et al. (2023).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hypocetus by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Pontoplanodidae by Ameghino (1894); to Physeterinae by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Physeterida by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Hoplocetinae by Simpson (1945), Muizon (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Hampe (2006) and Toscano et al. (2013); to Physeteridae by Ameghino (1901), Allen (1921), Kellogg (1928), Romero-Herrera et al. (1973), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Cozzuol (1996), Kazár (2002) and Collareta et al. (2017); to Panphyseteroidea by Berta (2017); and to Physeteroidea by Lambert et al. (2008), Perez et al. (2011), Marx et al. (2016), Paolucci et al. (2020) and Lambert et al. (2023).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1892 | Mesocetus Moreno p. 395 figs. Plate 10 |
| 1894 | Diaphorocetus Ameghino p. 437 |
| 1894 | Hypocetus Lydekker p. 7 |
| 1894 | Paracetus Lydekker p. 8 |
| 1895 | Paracetus Cope p. 135 |
| 1898 | Diaphorocetus Trouessart p. 1052 |
| 1901 | Diaphorocetus Ameghino p. 80 |
| 1902 | Hypocetus Hay p. 596 |
| 1904 | Hypocetus Case p. 30 |
| 1904 | Paracetus Palmer p. 511 |
| 1904 | Diaphorocetus Trouessart p. 772 |
| 1921 | Diaphorocetus Allen p. 154 |
| 1928 | Diaphorocetus Kellogg p. 34 figs. Table 1 |
| 1945 | Diaphorocetus Simpson p. 102 |
| 1973 | Diaphorocetus Romero-Herrera et al. p. 391 |
| 1988 | Diaphorocetus Carroll |
| 1990 | Diaphorocetus Muizon p. 298 |
| 1993 | Diaphorocetus Benton p. 761 |
| 1996 | Diaphorocetus Cozzuol p. 324 |
| 1997 | Diaphorocetus McKenna and Bell p. 379 |
| 2001 | Diaphorocetus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2002 | Diaphorocetus Kazár p. 163 |
| 2002 | Diaphorocetus Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Diaphorocetus Hampe p. 65 |
| 2007 | Diaphorocetus Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1 |
| 2008 | Diaphorocetus Lambert et al. p. 367 figs. Fig. 3 |
| 2011 | Diaphorocetus Perez et al. p. 648 |
| 2013 | Diaphorocetus Toscano et al. p. 440 |
| 2016 | Diaphorocetus Marx et al. p. 122 |
| 2017 | Diaphorocetus Berta p. 160 |
| 2017 | Diaphorocetus Collareta et al. p. 269 figs. Figure 6 |
| 2020 | Diaphorocetus Paolucci et al. p. 338 |
| 2023 | Diaphorocetus Lambert et al. p. 662 |
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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. †Diaphorocetus Ameghino 1894
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†Diaphorocetus ortegai Lambert et al. 2023
†Diaphorocetus poucheti Moreno 1892
Invalid names: Hypocetus Lydekker 1894 [objective synonym], Mesocetus Moreno 1892 [synonym], Paracetus Lydekker 1894 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Uhen 2004, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: Burdigalian or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | Argentina (Chubut) | Mesocetus poucheti (45885) | |
| Burdigalian | Peru | D. ortegai (124919) D. sp. (167732) |