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Mesocetus
Taxonomy
Mesocetus was named by Van Beneden (1880) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m T Mi-u]. Its type is Mesocetus longirostris.
It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiocetus by True (1912); it was considered a nomen dubium by Bouetel and Muizon (2006); it was considered a nomen dubium by Steeman (2010).
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Hay (1902) and Palmer (1904); to Balaenopterinae by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Balaenopteridae by Gorjanovic-Kramberger (1892), Zittel (1925) and Pia (1937); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1928), Hay (1930), Kellogg (1944), Simpson (1945), Sherman (1952), Pilleri (1987), Carroll (1988), Paunovic (1993), Gottfried et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Uhen et al. (2008); to Cetotheriinae by Whitmore and Barnes (2008); and to Tranatocetidae by Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiocetus by True (1912); it was considered a nomen dubium by Bouetel and Muizon (2006); it was considered a nomen dubium by Steeman (2010).
It was assigned to Balaenidae by Hay (1902) and Palmer (1904); to Balaenopterinae by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904); to Balaenopteridae by Gorjanovic-Kramberger (1892), Zittel (1925) and Pia (1937); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1928), Hay (1930), Kellogg (1944), Simpson (1945), Sherman (1952), Pilleri (1987), Carroll (1988), Paunovic (1993), Gottfried et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Mysticeti by Uhen et al. (2008); to Cetotheriinae by Whitmore and Barnes (2008); and to Tranatocetidae by Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
M. agrami, M. aquitanicus, M. hungaricus, M. longirostris (type species), M. pinguis, M. siphunculus
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1868 | Mesocetus pinguis Van Beneden and Gervais |
| 1874 | Mesocetus pinguis Vanden Broeck p. 146 |
| 1880 | Mesocetus pinguis Van Beneden |
| 1880 | Mesocetus Van Beneden p. 22 |
| 1880 | Mesocetus pinguis Van Beneden p. 23 |
| 1892 | Mesocetus Gorjanovic-Kramberger p. 15 |
| 1898 | Mesocetus Trouessart p. 1075 |
| 1898 | Mesocetus pinguis Trouessart p. 1076 |
| 1902 | Mesocetus Hay p. 600 |
| 1904 | Mesocetus Palmer p. 413 |
| 1904 | Mesocetus Trouessart p. 781 |
| 1904 | Mesocetus pinguis Trouessart p. 781 |
| 1925 | Mesocetus Zittel p. 88 |
| 1928 | Mesocetus Kellogg p. 35 figs. Table 1 |
| 1930 | Mesocetus Hay p. 571 |
| 1937 | Mesocetus Pia p. 389 |
| 1938 | Mesocetus pinguis Abel p. 5 |
| 1944 | Mesocetus Kellogg p. 454 |
| 1945 | Mesocetus Simpson p. 104 |
| 1952 | Mesocetus Sherman p. 99 |
| 1987 | Mesocetus Pilleri p. 77 |
| 1988 | Mesocetus Carroll |
| 1993 | Mesocetus Paunovic p. 4 |
| 1994 | Mesocetus Gottfried et al. p. 233 |
| 1997 | Mesocetus McKenna and Bell p. 376 |
| 2002 | Mesocetus Sepkoski |
| 2008 | Mesocetus Uhen et al. p. 615 |
| 2008 | Mesocetus Whitmore and Barnes p. 144 |
| 2015 | Mesocetus Gol'din and Steeman p. 6 |
| 2016 | Mesocetus Marx et al. p. 110 |
| 2017 | Mesocetus Berta p. 168 |
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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. †Mesocetus Van Beneden 1880
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†Mesocetus agrami Van Beneden 1884
†Mesocetus aquitanicus Flot 1896
†Mesocetus hungaricus Kadic 1904
†Mesocetus longirostris Van Beneden 1880
†Mesocetus siphunculus Cope 1895
Invalid names: Mesocetus pinguis Van Beneden 1880 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Piacenzian or 20.44000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (26 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Neogene | France | M. aquitanicus (85462) | |
| Burdigalian | France | M. aquitanicus (57732) | |
| Burdigalian | USA (Virginia) | M. siphunculus (85360) | |
| Langhian | USA (Maryland) | M. siphunculus (45509 70834 71795) | |
| Langhian | USA (Virginia) | M. siphunculus (79793) | |
| Middle Miocene | Netherlands | M. longirostris (192727) | |
| Middle Miocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Netherlands | M. longirostris (189573) | |
| Serravallian | Netherlands | M. sp., M. longirostris, Plesiocetus longirostris (75152) | |
| Serravallian | USA (Maryland) | M. siphunculus (70835) | |
| Serravallian | USA (Virginia) | M. pusillus (71817) M. siphunculus (126605 187324) M. sp. (55690) | |
| Serravallian | Austria | M. hungaricus (56462) | |
| MN 6 - MN 7 + 8 | Slovakia | M. hungaricus (69712) M. sp. (69714) | |
| Tortonian | Austria | M. sp. (85508) | |
| Tortonian | Croatia | M. agrami (84949) | |
| Tortonian | Bosnia and Herzegovina | M. agrami (54124 54125 54126 54127) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Belgium (Antwerpen) | M. longifrons, M. longirostris, M. pinguis (67022) | |
| Piacenzian | Italy | M. sp. (47428) |