Cetancodontamorpha
Appearance
Cetacodontamorpha Temporal range: Early Eocene to present
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Andrewsarchus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Clade: | Cetruminantia |
Clade: | Cetancodontamorpha Spaulding et al., 2009 |
Genera and Clades | |
†Siamotherium |
Cetancodontamorpha is a total clade of artiodactyls[1] defined, according to Spaulding et al., as Whippomorpha "plus all extinct taxa more closely related to extant members of [Whippomorpha] than to any other living species".[2] Attempts have been made to rename the clade Whippomorpha to Cetancodonta, but the former maintains precedent.[3]
Whippomorpha is the crown clade containing Cetacea (whales, dolphins, etc.) and hippopotamuses.[4] According to Spaulding et al., members of the whippomorph stem group (i.e., "stem-whippomorphs") include such taxa as the family Entelodontidae and the genus Andrewsarchus.
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Asher, Robert J.; Helgen, Kristofer M. (2010). "Nomenclature and placental mammal phylogeny". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10: 102. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-102. PMC 2865478. PMID 20406454.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals