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Taxonomy
Aglaocetus patulus was named by Kellogg (1968). Its type specimen is USNM 23690, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Stratford Bluffs, Zone 14-16, which is in a Serravallian offshore claystone in the Calvert Formation of Virginia.
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Thalassotherii by Bisconti et al. (2013); it was recombined as Atlanticetus patulus by Bisconti et al. (2020).
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Thalassotherii by Bisconti et al. (2013); it was recombined as Atlanticetus patulus by Bisconti et al. (2020).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1968 | Aglaocetus patulus Kellogg pp. 163-164 figs. 74-75 |
| 1994 | Aglaocetus patulus Gottfried et al. p. 233 |
| 2006 | Aglaocetus patulus Bouetel and Muizon p. 384 |
| 2008 | Aglaocetus patulus Uhen et al. p. 614 |
| 2010 | Aglaocetus patulus Steeman p. 65 |
| 2011 | Aglaocetus patulus Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2015 | Aglaocetus patulus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Aglaocetus patulus Hastings and Dooley p. 83 |
| 2020 | Atlanticetus patulus Bisconti et al. |
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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.
†Atlanticetus patulus Kellogg 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Serravallian or 13.82000 to 11.62000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Serravallian | USA (Maryland) | Aglaocetus patulus (70828 70835) | |
| Serravallian | USA (Virginia) | Aglaocetus patulus (type locality: 45508 187324) Aglaocetus sp. (57700) |