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Halicetus ignotus

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Halicetus ignotus was named by Kellogg (1969). Its type specimen is USNM 23636, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Calvert Beach Run, south of, Zone 19, which is in a Serravallian offshore shelf sandstone in the Choptank Formation of Maryland.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1969Halicetus ignotus Kellogg p. 25 figs. Plates 17-25
1984Halicetus ignotus Whitmore p. 230
1994Halicetus ignotus Gottfried et al. p. 233
2008Halicetus ignotus Uhen et al. p. 615
2017Halicetus ignotus Hastings and Dooley p. 83

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
—Chaeomysticeti()
genusHalicetus
speciesignotus

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.

†Halicetus ignotus Kellogg 1969
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available