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Cetotherium crassangulum
Taxonomy
Cetotherium crassangulum was named by Cope (1895). Its type specimen is USNM 8517, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is City Point, which is in a Pliocene shallow subtidal horizon in the Yorktown Formation of Virginia.
It was synonymized subjectively with Cetotherium leptocentrum by Cope (1896), Trouessart (1898) and Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Cyrtodelphis crassangulum by Hay (1930).
It was synonymized subjectively with Cetotherium leptocentrum by Cope (1896), Trouessart (1898) and Hay (1902); it was synonymized subjectively with Cyrtodelphis crassangulum by Hay (1930).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1895 | Cetotherium crassangulum Cope p. 148 figs. Plate 11, Figs. 1a, 1b, 2, 3a, 3b |
| 1988 | Cetotherium crassangulum Muizon p. 46 |
| 2012 | Cetotherium crassangulum Tarasenko and Lopatin p. 532 |
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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.
†Cetotherium crassangulum Cope 1895
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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