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Taxonomy
Macrokentriodon was named by Dawson (1996). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Kentriodontinae by Dawson (1996), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Lambert et al. (2005), Kazár and Hampe (2014) and Marx et al. (2016); to Kentriodontidae by Uhen et al. (2008) and Berta (2017); to Lophocetidae by Guo and Kohno (2023); and to Delphinida by Peredo et al. (2018) and Godfrey and Lambert (2023).
It was assigned to Kentriodontinae by Dawson (1996), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Lambert et al. (2005), Kazár and Hampe (2014) and Marx et al. (2016); to Kentriodontidae by Uhen et al. (2008) and Berta (2017); to Lophocetidae by Guo and Kohno (2023); and to Delphinida by Peredo et al. (2018) and Godfrey and Lambert (2023).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1996 | Macrokentriodon Dawson pp. 135-136 figs. Fig. 1-4 |
2001 | Macrokentriodon Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
2005 | Macrokentriodon Lambert et al. p. 240 |
2008 | Macrokentriodon Uhen et al. p. 589 |
2014 | Macrokentriodon Kazár and Hampe p. 1217 |
2016 | Macrokentriodon Marx et al. p. 134 |
2017 | Macrokentriodon Berta p. 163 |
2018 | Macrokentriodon Peredo et al. p. 16 fig. 10 |
2023 | Macrokentriodon Godfrey and Lambert p. 118 |
2023 | Macrokentriodon Guo and Kohno p. 5 |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available