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Ontocetus
Taxonomy
Ontocetus was named by Leidy (1859) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m T Mi-u]. Its type is Ontocetus emmonsi.
It was synonymized subjectively with Hoplocetus by Trouessart (1898); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001).
It was assigned to Catodontidae by Cope (1867); to Sirenia by Cope (1875); to Physeterinae by Hay (1902) and Simpson (1945); to Physeteridae by Gill (1871), Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1928), Barnes (1977) and Carroll (1988); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Odobeninae by Kohno (2006), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Berta (2017) and Berta et al. (2018); to Odobenidae by Ray (1975), Uhen et al. (2008), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Berta (2018) and Albright et al. (2019); and to Odobenini by Kohno and Ray (2008), Magallanes et al. (2018), Boessenecker et al. (2018), Biewer et al. (2020) and Boisville et al. (2024).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hoplocetus by Trouessart (1898); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001).
It was assigned to Catodontidae by Cope (1867); to Sirenia by Cope (1875); to Physeterinae by Hay (1902) and Simpson (1945); to Physeteridae by Gill (1871), Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1928), Barnes (1977) and Carroll (1988); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Odobeninae by Kohno (2006), Boessenecker and Churchill (2013), Berta (2017) and Berta et al. (2018); to Odobenidae by Ray (1975), Uhen et al. (2008), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Berta (2018) and Albright et al. (2019); and to Odobenini by Kohno and Ray (2008), Magallanes et al. (2018), Boessenecker et al. (2018), Biewer et al. (2020) and Boisville et al. (2024).