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Pliopontos
Taxonomy
Pliopontos was named by Muizon (1983) [Sepkoski's age data: T Plio-l Sepkoski's reference number: 746].
It was assigned to Platanistidae by Muizon (1983); to Pontoporiinae by Barnes (1985), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Inioidea by Geisler et al. (2011); and to Pontoporiidae by Muizon (1984), Carroll (1988), Hamilton et al. (2001), Cozzuol (2010), Geisler et al. (2012), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Platanistidae by Muizon (1983); to Pontoporiinae by Barnes (1985), de Muizon (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Inioidea by Geisler et al. (2011); and to Pontoporiidae by Muizon (1984), Carroll (1988), Hamilton et al. (2001), Cozzuol (2010), Geisler et al. (2012), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1983 | Pliopontos Muizon p. 1101 |
| 1984 | Pliopontos Muizon p. 24 |
| 1985 | Pliopontos Barnes p. 29 |
| 1988 | Pliopontos Carroll |
| 1988 | Pliopontos de Muizon p. 162 |
| 1997 | Pliopontos McKenna and Bell p. 387 |
| 2001 | Pliopontos Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2001 | Pliopontos Hamilton et al. p. 554 |
| 2002 | Pliopontos Sepkoski |
| 2010 | Pliopontos Cozzuol p. 202 |
| 2011 | Pliopontos Geisler et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1 |
| 2012 | Pliopontos Geisler et al. p. 207 figs. Figure 7 |
| 2016 | Pliopontos Marx et al. p. 133 |
| 2017 | Pliopontos Berta p. 164 |
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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