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Andrewsiphius sloani

Mammalia - Cetacea - Remingtonocetidae

Taxonomy
Protocetus sloani was named by Sahni and Mishra (1972). Its type specimen is LUVP 11002, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Baranda, which is in a Lutetian marine claystone in India.

It was recombined as Remingtonocetus sloani by Kumar and Sahni (1986), Bajpai and Thewissen (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001) and van Vliet (2004); it was recombined as Andrewsiphius sloani by Gingerich et al. (2001), McLeod and Barnes (2008) and Thewissen and Bajpai (2009).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Protocetus sloani Sahni and Mishra p. 491
1975Andrewsiphius kutchensis Sahni and Mishra p. 23 figs. Fig. 3, Plate 5, Fig. 6
1975Andrewsiphius minor Sahni and Mishra p. 25
1986Remingtonocetus sloani Kumar and Sahni p. 341
1998Remingtonocetus sloani Bajpai and Thewissen p. 218
1998Andrewsiphius kutchensis Bajpai and Thewissen p. 221
2001Andrewsiphius sloani Gingerich et al. p. 288
2001Andrewsiphius kutchensis Thewissen et al. p. 351 figs. Table 1
2001Andrewsiphius minor Thewissen et al. p. 351 figs. Table 1
2001Remingtonocetus sloani Thewissen et al. p. 351 figs. Table 1
2004Remingtonocetus sloani van Vliet p. 143
2008Andrewsiphius kutchensis McLeod and Barnes p. 93
2008Andrewsiphius minor McLeod and Barnes p. 93
2008Andrewsiphius sloani McLeod and Barnes p. 93
2009Andrewsiphius sloani Thewissen and Bajpai p. 637

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

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.

Andrewsiphius sloani Sahni and Mishra 1972
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Invalid names: Andrewsiphius kutchensis Sahni and Mishra 1975 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available