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Squalodon servatus

Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae

Taxonomy
Arionius servatus was named by Meyer (1841) [Kellog (1923) states that the type specimen is in the Wurttemb. Naturalien Sammlung at Stuttgart, Germany.]. It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Baltringen, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in Germany.

It was replaced with Squalodon meyeri by Brandt (1874) and Roger (1887); it was considered a nomen dubium by Dal Piaz (1916); it was recombined as Squalodon servatus by Van Beneden and Gervais (1880), Zittel (1894), Studer (1898), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Rothausen (1968) and Symeonidis et al. (2004).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Arionius servatus Meyer p. 315
1853Arionius servatus Bronn p. 761
1853Arionius servatus Pictet p. 383
1858Arionius servatus Meyer
1880Squalodon servatus Van Beneden and Gervais pp. 438-439
1894Squalodon servatus Zittel p. 170
1898Squalodon servatus Studer p. 131
1898Squalodon servatus Trouessart p. 1011
1904Squalodon servatus Trouessart p. 755
1923Arionius servatus Kellogg p. 31
1968Squalodon servatus Rothausen p. 91 figs. Table 1
2004Squalodon servatus Symeonidis et al. p. 319 figs. Table 2

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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
genusSqualodon
speciesservatus()

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.

Squalodon servatus Meyer 1841
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available