Sulakocetus Temporal range:
Chattian
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †
Sulakocetus Mchedlidze, 1976 |
Species: | †S. dagestanicus
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Binomial name | |
†Sulakocetus dagestanicus Mchedlidze, 1976
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Sulakocetus is an extinct genus of toothed whale. It was first described by G.A. Mchedlidze in 1976 with the type species S. dagestanicus. [1] Initially classified as part of family Waipatiidae, [2] further research has called its taxonomic placement into question. A review in 1990 indicated that it should be excluded from the superfamily Platanistoidea. [3] A further assessment in 2016 stated that it should not be classified with the Waipatiidae, and left its status for further review, essentially rendering it incertae sedis. [4]
Sulakocetus should perhaps be regarded as an Odontoceti incertae sedis but, in any case, it should not be referred to the super-family Platanistoidea, to which belongs the family Squalodontidae.
Sulakocetus Temporal range:
Chattian
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †
Sulakocetus Mchedlidze, 1976 |
Species: | †S. dagestanicus
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Binomial name | |
†Sulakocetus dagestanicus Mchedlidze, 1976
|
Sulakocetus is an extinct genus of toothed whale. It was first described by G.A. Mchedlidze in 1976 with the type species S. dagestanicus. [1] Initially classified as part of family Waipatiidae, [2] further research has called its taxonomic placement into question. A review in 1990 indicated that it should be excluded from the superfamily Platanistoidea. [3] A further assessment in 2016 stated that it should not be classified with the Waipatiidae, and left its status for further review, essentially rendering it incertae sedis. [4]
Sulakocetus should perhaps be regarded as an Odontoceti incertae sedis but, in any case, it should not be referred to the super-family Platanistoidea, to which belongs the family Squalodontidae.