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Taxonomy
Thinocetus was named by Kellogg (1969).
It was assigned to Diorocetidae by Steeman (2007); to Mysticeti by Uhen et al. (2008); to Balaenopteroidea by Marx and Fordyce (2015); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1969), Gottfried et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Whitmore and Barnes (2008) and Berta (2017); and to Balaenomorpha by Hampe and Fahlke (2022).
It was assigned to Diorocetidae by Steeman (2007); to Mysticeti by Uhen et al. (2008); to Balaenopteroidea by Marx and Fordyce (2015); to Cetotheriidae by Kellogg (1969), Gottfried et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Whitmore and Barnes (2008) and Berta (2017); and to Balaenomorpha by Hampe and Fahlke (2022).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1969 | Thinocetus Kellogg |
| 1994 | Thinocetus Gottfried et al. p. 233 |
| 1997 | Thinocetus McKenna and Bell p. 376 |
| 2007 | Thinocetus Steeman p. 880 |
| 2008 | Thinocetus Uhen et al. p. 617 |
| 2008 | Thinocetus Whitmore and Barnes p. 173 |
| 2015 | Thinocetus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Thinocetus Berta p. 168 |
| 2022 | Thinocetus Hampe and Fahlke p. 15 |
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| O. Hampe and J. M. Fahlke 2022 | Enlarged, strongly protruding, robust occipital condyles; small foramen magnum; supraoccipital strongly concave above the foramen magnum; exoccipitals flattened, not protruding poste- riorly and confluent with the adjacent bones; periotic with small pars cochlearis; anterior process of periotic sub-trapezoidal and anteriorly blunt; compound poste- rior process of the tympanoperiotic relatively slender; tympanic bullae with posteriorly extremely thick invo- lucrum; tympanic bullae box-shaped in ventromedial and dorsolateral views due to prominent posterolater- al process on the involucral bulge; involucrum with distinct ornament of mediolaterally oriented wrinkles; crus breve of the incus short with about one third of the length of the crus longum. |