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Peripolocetus
Taxonomy
Peripolocetus was named by Kellogg (1931). Its type is Peripolocetus vexillifer. It was considered monophyletic by Marx and Fordyce (2015).
It was corrected as Periplocetus by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Cetotheriidae by Simpson (1945), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Whitmore and Barnes (2008); to Mysticeti by Kellogg (1931) and Uhen et al. (2008); and to Balaenidae by Marx and Fordyce (2015) and Berta (2017).
It was corrected as Periplocetus by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); to Cetotheriidae by Simpson (1945), Barnes (1977), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Whitmore and Barnes (2008); to Mysticeti by Kellogg (1931) and Uhen et al. (2008); and to Balaenidae by Marx and Fordyce (2015) and Berta (2017).
Species
P. vexillifer (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1931 | Peripolocetus Kellogg p. 338 |
| 1945 | Peripolocetus Simpson p. 104 |
| 1977 | Peripolocetus Barnes p. 327 |
| 1988 | Peripolocetus Carroll |
| 1997 | Peripolocetus McKenna and Bell p. 376 |
| 2002 | Periplocetus Sepkoski |
| 2008 | Peripolocetus Uhen et al. p. 617 |
| 2008 | Peripolocetus Whitmore and Barnes p. 173 |
| 2015 | Peripolocetus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Peripolocetus Berta p. 167 |
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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