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Taxonomy
Isocetus was named by Van Beneden (1880) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-u].
It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiocetus by True (1912); it was considered a nomen dubium by Steeman (2010).
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Palmer (1904); to Balaenopterinae by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Uhen et al. (2008); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1928), Kellogg (1944), Simpson (1945), Sherman (1952), Whitmore (1984), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Whitmore and Barnes (2008); and to Thalassotherii by Bisconti et al. (2013) and Berta (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiocetus by True (1912); it was considered a nomen dubium by Steeman (2010).
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Palmer (1904); to Balaenopterinae by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Uhen et al. (2008); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1928), Kellogg (1944), Simpson (1945), Sherman (1952), Whitmore (1984), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Whitmore and Barnes (2008); and to Thalassotherii by Bisconti et al. (2013) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1880 | Isocetus Van Beneden p. 24 figs. not figured |
| 1898 | Isocetus Trouessart p. 1076 |
| 1904 | Isocetus Palmer p. 352 |
| 1904 | Isocetus Trouessart p. 782 |
| 1928 | Isocetus Kellogg p. 35 figs. Table 1 |
| 1944 | Isocetus Kellogg p. 457 |
| 1945 | Isocetus Simpson p. 104 |
| 1952 | Isocetus Sherman p. 99 |
| 1984 | Isocetus Whitmore p. 230 |
| 1988 | Isocetus Carroll |
| 1997 | Isocetus McKenna and Bell p. 376 |
| 2002 | Isocetus Sepkoski |
| 2008 | Isocetus Uhen et al. p. 615 |
| 2008 | Isocetus Whitmore and Barnes p. 173 |
| 2013 | Isocetus Bisconti et al. p. 99 |
| 2017 | Isocetus Berta p. 168 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available