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Taxonomy
Ferecetotherium was named by Mchedlidze (1970) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-u Sepkoski's reference number: 746,1022].
It was assigned to Patriocetidae by Mchedlidze (1970); to Aetiocetidae by Mchedlidze (1976); to Cetacea by Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Sepkoski (2002); to Physeteroidea by Mchedlidze (2007) and Marx et al. (2016); and to Physeteridae by Barnes (1985), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Kazár (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Uhen (2008) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Patriocetidae by Mchedlidze (1970); to Aetiocetidae by Mchedlidze (1976); to Cetacea by Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Sepkoski (2002); to Physeteroidea by Mchedlidze (2007) and Marx et al. (2016); and to Physeteridae by Barnes (1985), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Kazár (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Uhen (2008) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1970 | Ferecetotherium Mchedlidze p. 72 |
1976 | Ferecetotherium Mchedlidze p. 13 |
1977 | Ferecetotherium Whitmore and Sanders p. 305 |
1985 | Ferecetotherium Barnes p. 91 |
1988 | Ferecetotherium Carroll |
1997 | Ferecetotherium McKenna and Bell p. 368 |
2001 | Ferecetotherium Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
2002 | Ferecetotherium Kazár p. 163 |
2002 | Ferecetotherium Sepkoski |
2003 | Ferecetotherium Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
2007 | Ferecetotherium Mchedlidze p. 165 |
2008 | Ferecetotherium Uhen p. 445 figs. Table 1 |
2016 | Ferecetotherium Marx et al. p. 122 |
2017 | Ferecetotherium Berta p. 161 |
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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