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Prosqualodon
Taxonomy
Prosqualodon was named by Lydekker (1894) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-l]. It was considered monophyletic by Muizon (1987), Geisler et al. (2011).
It was replaced with Postsqualodon by Stromer (1908).
It was assigned to Agorophiidae by Abel (1914), Abel (1919); to Squalodontoidea by Fordyce (1980); to Platanistoidea by Muizon (1990), Muizon (1994); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Squalodontidae by Lydekker (1894), Trouessart (1898), Ameghino (1901), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), True (1907), True (1910), Winge (1921), Flynn (1923), Miller (1923), Zittel (1925), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Keyes (1973), Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Fordyce (1981), Muizon (1987), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Uhen (2005); to Prosqualodontidae by Cozzuol (1996), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Fitzgerald (2004), Uhen (2008), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017); to Odontoceti by Geisler et al. (2011), Tanaka et al. (2023); and to Odontoceti by Gaetán et al. (2019), Gaetán et al. (2025).
It was replaced with Postsqualodon by Stromer (1908).
It was assigned to Agorophiidae by Abel (1914), Abel (1919); to Squalodontoidea by Fordyce (1980); to Platanistoidea by Muizon (1990), Muizon (1994); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Squalodontidae by Lydekker (1894), Trouessart (1898), Ameghino (1901), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), True (1907), True (1910), Winge (1921), Flynn (1923), Miller (1923), Zittel (1925), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Keyes (1973), Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Fordyce (1981), Muizon (1987), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Uhen (2005); to Prosqualodontidae by Cozzuol (1996), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Fitzgerald (2004), Uhen (2008), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017); to Odontoceti by Geisler et al. (2011), Tanaka et al. (2023); and to Odontoceti by Gaetán et al. (2019), Gaetán et al. (2025).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1894 | Prosqualodon Lydekker p. 8 |
| 1898 | Prosqualodon Trouessart p. 1011 |
| 1901 | Prosqualodon Ameghino p. 80 |
| 1904 | Prosqualodon Palmer p. 576 |
| 1904 | Prosqualodon Trouessart p. 754 |
| 1907 | Prosqualodon True p. 7 |
| 1908 | Postsqualodon Stromer p. 172 |
| 1910 | Prosqualodon True p. 31 |
| 1914 | Prosqualodon Abel p. 220 |
| 1919 | Prosqualodon Abel p. 751 |
| 1921 | Prosqualodon Winge p. 7 |
| 1923 | Prosqualodon Flynn p. 271 |
| 1923 | Prosqualodon Miller p. 40 |
| 1925 | Prosqualodon Zittel p. 86 |
| 1928 | Prosqualodon Kellogg p. 32 figs. Table 1 |
| 1945 | Prosqualodon Simpson p. 100 |
| 1973 | Prosqualodon Keyes p. 389 |
| 1977 | Prosqualodon Whitmore and Sanders p. 305 |
| 1980 | Prosqualodon Fordyce p. iii figs. Table 2 |
| 1981 | Prosqualodon Fordyce p. 1041 |
| 1987 | Prosqualodon Muizon p. 13 |
| 1988 | Prosqualodon Carroll |
| 1990 | Prosqualodon Muizon p. 312 |
| 1994 | Prosqualodon Muizon p. 136 |
| 1996 | Prosqualodon Cozzuol |
| 1997 | Prosqualodon McKenna and Bell p. 373 |
| 2001 | Prosqualodon Fordyce and de Muizon |
| 2002 | Prosqualodon Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Prosqualodon Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
| 2004 | Prosqualodon Fitzgerald p. 206 |
| 2005 | Prosqualodon Uhen p. 1041 |
| 2008 | Prosqualodon Uhen p. 445 figs. Table 1 |
| 2011 | Prosqualodon Geisler et al. p. 5 figs. Table 1 |
| 2016 | Prosqualodon Marx et al. p. 120 |
| 2017 | Prosqualodon Berta p. 160 |
| 2019 | Prosqualodon Gaetán et al. p. 4 |
| 2023 | Prosqualodon Tanaka et al. |
| 2025 | Prosqualodon Gaetán et al. p. 8 |
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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. †Prosqualodon Lydekker 1894
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Invalid names: Postsqualodon Stromer 1908 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available