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Squalodon whitmorei

Mammalia - Cetacea - Squalodontidae

Taxonomy
Squalodon whitmorei was named by Dooley (2005). Its type specimen is USNM 183023, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mason Mill Pond, Zone 3b, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in the Calvert Formation of Virginia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. grateloupii

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2005Squalodon whitmorei Dooley p. 2 figs. 2-30
2008Squalodon whitmorei Uhen et al. p. 583
2008Squalodon whitmorei Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 183
2023Squalodon whitmorei Godfrey and Lambert p. 56

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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
specieswhitmorei

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 whitmorei Dooley 2005
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available