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Taxonomy
Phococetus was named by Gervais (1876) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-l T Mi-l-u Sepkoski's reference number: 2,1022]. It was considered monophyletic by Moustafa (1954).
It was synonymized subjectively with Squalodon by Zittel (1894).
It was assigned to Squalodontidae by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904) and True (1907); to Zeuglodontidae by Abel (1914); to Dorudontidae by Kellogg (1928), Kellogg (1936) and Simpson (1945); to Prozeuglodontidae by Moustafa (1954); to Archaeoceti by Harland et al. (1967) and Sanders et al. (1982); to Kekenodontinae by Mitchell (1989); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002) and Fordyce (2003); to Dorudontinae by van Vliet (2004); to Pelagiceti by Martínez-Cáceres et al. (2017); to Odontoceti by Boessenecker (2018); and to Kekenodontidae by Fordyce and Barnes (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Uhen (2008) and Uhen (2018).
It was synonymized subjectively with Squalodon by Zittel (1894).
It was assigned to Squalodontidae by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904) and True (1907); to Zeuglodontidae by Abel (1914); to Dorudontidae by Kellogg (1928), Kellogg (1936) and Simpson (1945); to Prozeuglodontidae by Moustafa (1954); to Archaeoceti by Harland et al. (1967) and Sanders et al. (1982); to Kekenodontinae by Mitchell (1989); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002) and Fordyce (2003); to Dorudontinae by van Vliet (2004); to Pelagiceti by Martínez-Cáceres et al. (2017); to Odontoceti by Boessenecker (2018); and to Kekenodontidae by Fordyce and Barnes (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Uhen (2008) and Uhen (2018).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1876 | Phococetus Gervais p. 70 |
| 1898 | Phococetus Trouessart p. 1011 |
| 1904 | Phococetus Palmer p. 533 |
| 1904 | Phococetus Trouessart p. 755 |
| 1907 | Phococetus True p. 7 |
| 1914 | Phococetus Abel p. 220 |
| 1928 | Phococetus Kellogg p. 32 figs. Table 1 |
| 1936 | Phococetus Kellogg p. 230 |
| 1945 | Phococetus Simpson p. 100 |
| 1954 | Phococetus Moustafa p. 87 |
| 1967 | Phococetus Harland et al. p. 774 |
| 1982 | Phococetus Sanders et al. p. H118 |
| 1989 | Phococetus Mitchell p. 2231 |
| 1994 | Phococetus Fordyce and Barnes p. 433 |
| 1997 | Phococetus McKenna and Bell p. 375 |
| 2002 | Phococetus Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Phococetus Fordyce p. 162 |
| 2004 | Phococetus van Vliet p. 143 |
| 2008 | Phococetus Uhen p. 445 figs. Table 15 |
| 2017 | Phococetus Martínez-Cáceres et al. p. 13 |
| 2018 | Phococetus Boessenecker |
| 2018 | Phococetus Uhen p. 79 |
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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