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Taxonomy
Hoplocetus was named by Gervais (1852) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m]. Its type is Hoplocetus crassidens.
It was synonymized subjectively with Balaenodon by Van Beneden and Gervais (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Scaldicetus by Abel (1905) and Zittel (1925); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001).
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Pictet (1853); to Odontoceti by Depéret (1893); to Physeterinae by Brandt (1873), Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Hoploceti by Winge (1921); to Cetacea by Bronn (1853) and Sepkoski (2002); to Physeteridae by Depéret (1887), Cope (1890), Newton (1891), Paquier (1894), Hay (1902), Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1928), Hay (1930), Kellogg (1944), Sherman (1952), Carroll (1988) and Kazár (2002); to Hoplocetinae by Simpson (1945), McKenna and Bell (1997), Hampe (2006) and Toscano et al. (2013); and to Physeteroidea by Ormezzano and Lanzetti (2014).
It was synonymized subjectively with Balaenodon by Van Beneden and Gervais (1880); it was synonymized subjectively with Scaldicetus by Abel (1905) and Zittel (1925); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001).
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Pictet (1853); to Odontoceti by Depéret (1893); to Physeterinae by Brandt (1873), Lydekker (1887), Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Hoploceti by Winge (1921); to Cetacea by Bronn (1853) and Sepkoski (2002); to Physeteridae by Depéret (1887), Cope (1890), Newton (1891), Paquier (1894), Hay (1902), Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1928), Hay (1930), Kellogg (1944), Sherman (1952), Carroll (1988) and Kazár (2002); to Hoplocetinae by Simpson (1945), McKenna and Bell (1997), Hampe (2006) and Toscano et al. (2013); and to Physeteroidea by Ormezzano and Lanzetti (2014).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1852 | Hoplocetus Gervais p. 161 |
| 1853 | Hoplocetus Bronn p. 758 |
| 1853 | Hoplocetus Pictet p. 388 |
| 1868 | Hoplocetus obesus Leidy p. 196 |
| 1869 | Hoplocetus obesus Leidy p. 438 |
| 1873 | Hoplocetus Brandt p. 208 |
| 1880 | Hoplocetus obesus Van Beneden and Gervais p. 342 |
| 1887 | Hoplocetus Depéret p. 275 |
| 1887 | Hoplocetus Lydekker p. 60 |
| 1890 | Hoplocetus Cope p. 607 |
| 1891 | Hoplocetus Newton p. 68 |
| 1893 | Hoplocetus Depéret p. 204 |
| 1894 | Hoplocetus Paquier p. 46 |
| 1898 | Hoplocetus Trouessart p. 1054 |
| 1898 | Hoplocetus obesus Trouessart p. 1054 |
| 1902 | Hoplocetus Hay p. 596 |
| 1902 | Hoplocetus obesus Hay p. 596 |
| 1904 | Hoplocetus Palmer p. 331 |
| 1904 | Hoplocetus Trouessart p. 773 |
| 1904 | Hoplocetus obesus Trouessart p. 773 |
| 1921 | Hoplocetus Winge p. 44 |
| 1928 | Hoplocetus Kellogg p. 34 figs. Table 1 |
| 1930 | Hoplocetus Hay p. 597 |
| 1930 | Hoplocetus obesus Hay p. 598 |
| 1944 | Hoplocetus Kellogg p. 451 |
| 1945 | Hoplocetus Simpson p. 102 |
| 1952 | Hoplocetus Sherman p. 99 |
| 1988 | Hoplocetus Carroll |
| 1997 | Hoplocetus McKenna and Bell p. 380 |
| 2002 | Hoplocetus Kazár p. 163 |
| 2002 | Hoplocetus Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Hoplocetus Hampe p. 65 |
| 2013 | Hoplocetus Toscano et al. p. 440 |
| 2014 | Hoplocetus Ormezzano and Lanzetti p. 20 |
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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. †Hoplocetus Gervais 1852
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†Hoplocetus borgerhoutensis Du Bus 1872
†Hoplocetus crassidens Gervais 1852
†Hoplocetus curvidens Gervais 1852
†Hoplocetus ritzi Hampe 2006
Invalid names: Hoplocetus obesus Leidy 1868 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available