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Squalodontidae

Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae

Taxonomy
Squalodontidae was named by Brandt (1873). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Uhen et al. (2008) and Barnes and Reynolds (2009).

It was assigned to Odontoceta by Ameghino (1894); to Cetacea by Newton (1891) and Rhoads (1903); to Odontocete by Hay (1902) and Hay (1930); to Squaloceti by Abel (1914), Abel (1919), Dal Piaz (1929) and Van Deinse (1931); to Archaeoceti by Paquier (1894) and Benham (1935); to Squalodontoidea by Simpson (1945), Rothausen (1961), Rothausen (1968), Ginsburg and Janvier (1971), Barnes et al. (1985), Pilleri (1987), Vidal (1991), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Dubrovo and Sanders (2000); to Platanistoidea by Muizon (1984), Muizon (1987), Muizon (1990), Muizon (1994), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), Rice (1998), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Rice (2002), Gingerich (2005), Godfrey et al. (2006), Barnes (2006), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Rice (2009), Barnes and Reynolds (2009), Bianucci et al. (2011), Carone and Marra (2014), Aguirre-Fernández and Fordyce (2014) and Marx et al. (2016); to Odontoceti by Winge (1921), Slijper (1936), Geisler et al. (2011) and Berta (2017); to Odontoceti by Lydekker (1887), Cope (1889), Cope (1890), Zittel (1894), Flores (1895), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Case (1904), Abel (1905), True (1908), Jaekel (1911), Miller (1923), Zittel (1925), Kellogg (1928), Keyes (1973), Whitmore and Sanders (1977), Whitmore (1984), Pilleri (1985), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Sach and Heizmann (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Cahuzac et al. (2005) and Godfrey and Lambert (2023); and to Stegoceti by Boessenecker and Geisler (2023).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1838Pachyodon Meyer p. 414
1844Zeuglodon vredense Landois p. 49
1853Pachyodon Bronn p. 774
1867Squalodon atlantica Cope
1868Squalodon atlanticus Cope p. 166
1869Squalodon atlanticus Leidy p. 416
1872Portheodon Gill
1873Squalodontidae Brandt p. 576
1875Squalodon atlanticus Cope p. 363
1887Squalodon atlanticus Lydekker p. 75
1887Squalodontidae Lydekker p. 75
1887Squalodon atlantica Roger p. 27
1889Squalodontidae Cope p. 876
1890Squalodontidae Cope p. 602
1890Squalodon atlanticus Cope p. 603
1891Squalodontidae Newton p. 75
1894Squalodontidae Ameghino p. 436
1894Mesoceti Dames
1894Squalodontidae Paquier p. 5
1894Zeuglodon vredense Zittel p. 168
1894Squalodontidae Zittel p. 169
1894Squalodon atlanticus Zittel p. 171
1895Squalodontidae Flores p. 11
1898Zeuglodon vredensis Trouessart p. 1010
1898Squalodontidae Trouessart p. 1012
1898Squalodon atlanticus Trouessart p. 1015
1902Squalodontidae Hay p. 588
1902Squalodon atlanticus Hay p. 589
1903Squalodon atlanticus Rhoads p. 247
1903Squalodontidae Rhoads p. 247
1904Squalodon atlantica Case p. 6
1904Squalodontidae Case p. 6
1904Basilosaurus vredensis Trouessart p. 753
1904Squalodontidae Trouessart p. 754
1904Squalodon atlanticus Trouessart p. 756
1905Squalodontidae Abel p. 46
1908Squalodontidae True p. 391
1911Squalodontidae Jaekel p. 231
1914Squalodontidae Abel p. 221
1916Basilosaurus atlantica Allen
1916Squalodon atlanticum Dal Piaz p. 8
1919Squalodontidae Abel p. 762
1921Squalodontidae Winge p. 7
1923Squalodon atlantica Kellogg p. 7
1923Squalodontidae Miller p. 40
1925Squalodontidae Zittel p. 85
1928Squalodontidae Kellogg p. 32 figs. Table 1
1929Squalodontidae Dal Piaz p. 73
1930Squalodontidae Hay p. 580
1930Squalodon atlanticus Hay p. 581
1931Squalodontidae Van Deinse p. 33
1935Squalodontidae Benham p. 243
1936Squalodontidae Slijper p. 543
1937Prosqualodon hamiltoni Benham pp. 8-9
1942Squalodon andrewi Benham p. 267
1942Prosqualodon hamiltoni Kellogg p. 447
1945Squalodontidae Simpson p. 100
1961Squalodontidae Rothausen p. 113
1968Squalodontidae Rothausen p. 87
1971Squalodontidae Ginsburg and Janvier p. 167
1973Prosqualodon hamiltoni Keyes p. 389
1973Squalodon andrewi Keyes p. 389
1973Squalodontidae Keyes p. 389
1977Squalodontidae Whitmore and Sanders p. 305
1980Prosqualodon hamiltoni Fordyce p. iii figs. Table 2
1984Squalodontidae Muizon p. 68
1984Squalodontidae Whitmore p. 230
1985Squalodontidae Barnes et al. p. 25
1985Squalodontidae Pilleri p. 11
1987Squalodontidae Muizon p. 13
1987Squalodontidae Pilleri p. 147
1988Squalodontidae Carroll
1990Squalodontidae Muizon p. 312
1991Squalodontidae Vidal p. 5
1993Squalodontidae Benton p. 761
1994Squalodontidae Fordyce and Barnes p. 429 figs. Table 1
1994Squalodontidae Muizon p. 136
1995Squalodontidae Fordyce et al. p. 379
1997Squalodontidae McKenna and Bell p. 373
1998Squalodontidae Rice
2000Squalodontidae Dubrovo and Sanders p. 580
2001Squalodontidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178
2001Squalodontidae Sach and Heizmann p. 42
2002Squalodontidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1
2003Squalodontidae Geisler and Sanders p. 28
2005Squalodontidae Cahuzac et al. p. 420
2005Squalodontidae Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1
2006Squalodontidae Barnes p. 32
2006Squalodontidae Godfrey et al. p. 68A
2007Squalodontidae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1
2008Squalodon atlanticus Uhen et al. p. 583
2008Squalodontidae Uhen et al. p. 583
2008Squalodontidae Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 183
2009Squalodontidae Barnes and Reynolds p. 487
2009Squalodontidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1
2011Squalodontidae Bianucci et al. p. 560
2011Squalodontidae Geisler et al. p. 5 figs. Table 1
2012Basilosaurus vredensis Kalmykov p. 179
2014Squalodontidae Aguirre-Fernández and Fordyce p. 195
2014Squalodontidae Carone and Marra p. 122
2016Squalodontidae Marx et al. p. 120
2017Squalodontidae Berta p. 160
2023Squalodontidae Boessenecker and Geisler p. 152
2023Squalodontidae Godfrey and Lambert p. 53

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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
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderOdontoceti
Amblyoccipita
Stegoceti
familySqualodontidae
familySqualodontidae

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.

Fm. †Squalodontidae Brandt 1873
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G. †Austrosqualodon Climo and Baker 1972
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Austrosqualodon trirhizodonta Climo and Baker 1972
G. †Eosqualodon Rothausen 1968
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Eosqualodon langewieschei Rothausen 1968
Eosqualodon latirostris Capellini 1903
G. †Squalodon Grateloup 1840
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Squalodon antverpiensis Van Beneden 1861
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Squalodon barbarus Mchedlidze and Aslanova 1968
Squalodon bariensis Jourdan 1861
Squalodon bellunensis Dal Piaz 1901
Squalodon bordae Gervais 1852
Squalodon calvertensis Kellogg 1923
Squalodon catulli Molin 1859
Squalodon dalpiazi Fabiani 1949
Squalodon grateloupii von Meyer 1843
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Invalid names: Delphinoides gratelupi Pedroni 1845 [objective synonym], Squalodon burgueti Gervais 1849 [synonym], Squalodon grateloupii Gervais 1846 [objective synonym]
Squalodon hypsispondylus Brandt 1874
Squalodon imperator Cigala-Fulgosi and Pilleri 1985
Squalodon linzianus Brandt 1871
Squalodon melitensis Blainville 1840
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Invalid names: Squalodon scillae Agassiz 1841 [synonym]
Squalodon meyeri Brandt 1873
Squalodon mirabilis Meyer 1838
Squalodon molassicus Bronn 1837
Squalodon murdochi Godfrey and Lambert 2023
Squalodon peregrinus Dal Piaz 1971
Squalodon rugidens Meyer 1845
Squalodon servatus Meyer 1841
Squalodon vocontiorum Delfortrie 1874
Squalodon whitmorei Dooley 2005
Squalodon zitteli Paquier 1894
Invalid names: Arionius Meyer 1841 [synonym], Crenidelphinus Laurillard 1844 [synonym], Delphinoides Pedroni 1845 [synonym], Kelloggia Mchedlidze 1976 [synonym], Macrophoca Leidy 1856 [synonym], Phoca pedronii Gervais 1849 [invalid subgroup], Phocodon Agassiz 1841 [synonym], Priscodelphinus validus Du Bus 1872 [nomen nudum], Rhizoprion Jourdan 1861 [synonym], Rhytisodon Costa 1852 [synonym], Smilocomptus Gervais 1849 [synonym], Squalodon quaternarium Forsyth Major 1879 [nomen nudum], Trirhizodon Cope 1890 [synonym]
G. †Tangaroasaurus Benham 1935
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Invalid names: Mesoceti Dames 1894 [synonym], Pachyodon Meyer 1838 [nomen dubium], Portheodon Gill 1872 [nomen nudum], Prosqualodon hamiltoni Benham 1937 [invalid subgroup], Squalodon andrewi Benham 1942 [invalid subgroup], Squalodon atlanticus Leidy 1856 [invalid subgroup], Squalodontinae Rothausen 1968 [empty], Zeuglodon vredense Landois 1844 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available