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Pachyacanthus
Taxonomy
Pachyacanthus was named by Brandt (1871). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Kazár (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Champsodelphis by Zittel (1894); it was synonymized subjectively with Priscodelphinus by Trouessart (1898).
It was assigned to Cetotheriinae by Brandt (1873); to Cetotherinae by Brandt (1874); to Sirenia by Van Beneden (1875) and Woodward (1885); to Halicoridae by Trouessart (1904); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1928); to Balaenopteridae by Abel (1919) and Pia and Sickenberg (1934); to Prototheriidae by Kretzoi (1941); to Platanistinae by Simpson (1945); to Odontoceti by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Delphinida by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); and to Platanistidae by Pia (1937), Carroll (1988), Kazár (2010) and Gol'din et al. (2020).
It was synonymized subjectively with Champsodelphis by Zittel (1894); it was synonymized subjectively with Priscodelphinus by Trouessart (1898).
It was assigned to Cetotheriinae by Brandt (1873); to Cetotherinae by Brandt (1874); to Sirenia by Van Beneden (1875) and Woodward (1885); to Halicoridae by Trouessart (1904); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1928); to Balaenopteridae by Abel (1919) and Pia and Sickenberg (1934); to Prototheriidae by Kretzoi (1941); to Platanistinae by Simpson (1945); to Odontoceti by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Delphinida by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); and to Platanistidae by Pia (1937), Carroll (1988), Kazár (2010) and Gol'din et al. (2020).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1871 | Pachyacanthus Brandt p. 564 |
| 1873 | Pachyacanthus Brandt p. 166 |
| 1874 | Pachyacanthus Brandt p. II |
| 1875 | Pachyacanthus Van Beneden p. 340 |
| 1885 | Pachyacanthus Woodward p. 424 |
| 1904 | Pachyacanthus Trouessart p. 750 |
| 1919 | Pachyacanthus Abel p. 753 |
| 1928 | Pachyacanthus Kellogg p. 35 figs. Table 1 |
| 1934 | Pachyacanthus Pia and Sickenberg p. 26 |
| 1937 | Pachyacanthus Pia p. 60 |
| 1941 | Pachyacanthus Kretzoi p. 155 |
| 1945 | Pachyacanthus Simpson p. 101 |
| 1988 | Pachyacanthus Carroll |
| 1997 | Pachyacanthus McKenna and Bell p. 379 |
| 2001 | Pachyacanthus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178 |
| 2010 | Pachyacanthus Kazár p. 542 |
| 2020 | Pachyacanthus Gol'din et al. p. 12 |
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G. †Pachyacanthus Brandt 1871
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†Pachyacanthus suessii Brandt 1871
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Invalid names: Cetotherium ambiguum Brandt 1872 [synonym], Pachyacanthus andrussovi Dombrovsky 1925 [synonym], Pachyacanthus bajarunasi Dombrovsky 1925 [synonym], Pachyacanthus letochae Brandt 1873 [synonym], Pachyacanthus trachyspondylus Brandt 1871 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| E. Kazár 2010 | Platanistoid with pachyostosis in the spinous processes of the postcervical vertebrae. |