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Pelagiceti

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)134057https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=134057
Rankunranked clade (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Pelagiceti
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
orderCetaceaBrisson 1762
-PelagicetiUhen 2008
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated without evidenceUhen, 2008
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated with evidenceUhen, 2010
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated without evidenceSteeman, 2010
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated with evidenceGodfrey et al., 2016
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated without evidenceBuono et al., 2016
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated with evidenceBisconti et al., 2017
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated without evidenceBerta, 2017
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated with evidenceLambert et al., 2018
Pelagicetiunranked cladebelongs to Cetaceastated without evidenceCollareta et al., 2019
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)1,157
Extant Size (PBDB)252 (22%)
First Recorded Appearance56.0 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene
Environmentmarine (based on Cetacea)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Cetacea)
Dietcarnivore (based on Cetacea)
Reproductionviviparous (based on Cetacea)
Ontogenymodification of parts (based on Cetacea)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite (based on Cetacea)
Primary Reference (PBDB)M. D. Uhen. 2008. New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new cetacean clade, Pelagiceti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):589-593

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Basilosauridae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
27656.0 Ma
Paleocene
0 Ma
Extant
Neoceti
unranked clade
listed (PBDB)3,94938.0 Ma
Eocene
0 Ma
Extant

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1881Zeuglodon harwoodii Sanger pp. 298-299 figs. Fig. A-B
1898Zeuglodon harwoodi Trouessart p. 1010
1904Basilosaurus harwoodi Trouessart p. 753
1908Zeuglodon harwoodi Stomer p. 147
1911Metasqualodon harwoodi Hall pp. 262-263
1914Microzeuglodon harwoodi Abel p. 220
1923Metasqualodon harwoodi Kellogg p. 20
1987Metasqualodon harwoodi Okazaki p. 137
1991Metasqualodon harwoodi Fordyce p. 1180
2004Metasqualodon harwoodi Fitzgerald p. 206
2008Pelagiceti Uhen p. 434
2010Pelagiceti Steeman p. 64
2010Pelagiceti Uhen p. 206 figs. Figure 1
2011Pelagiceti Martinez-Cáceres and Muizon
2011Pelagiceti Uhen et al. p. 966 figs. Figure 10
2012Basilosaurus harwoodi Kalmykov p. 179
2013Pelagiceti Uhen p. 3
YearName and Author
2014Pelagiceti Goldin et al.
2016Pelagiceti Buono et al. p. 299
2016Pelagiceti Godfrey et al. p. 156
2016Pelagiceti Marx et al. p. 100
2016Pelagiceti Peredo and Uhen
2017Pelagiceti Berta p. 159
2017Pelagiceti Bisconti et al. p. 7
2017Pelagiceti Collareta et al. p. 261
2017Pelagiceti Godfrey et al.
2017Pelagiceti Lambert et al.
2017Pelagiceti Martínez-Cáceres et al. p. 11
2018Pelagiceti Lambert et al. p. 6
2018Pelagiceti Nelson and Uhen
2018Pelagiceti Peredo et al. p. 1
2018Pelagiceti Peredo et al. p. 2
2019Pelagiceti Collareta et al.
2019Pelagiceti de Muizon et al. p. 405

References

Uhen M. D. (2008) New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new cetacean clade, Pelagiceti, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 3, 589-593 doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[589:NPWFAA]2.0.CO;2
Sanger E. B. On a molar tooth of Zeuglodon from the Tertiary beds on the Murray River near Wellington, S.A., Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5, 298-301
Trouessart E. L. , Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum 5, 665-1264
Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929
Hall T. S. (1911) On the systematic position of the species of Squalodon and Zeuglodon described from Australia and New Zealand, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23 2, 257-265
Abel O. (1914) Die vorfahren der bartenwale, Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 90, 155-224
Kellogg R. (1923) Description of two squalodonts recently discovered in the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland; and notes on the shark-toothed cetaceans, Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum 62 16, 1-69
Okazaki Y. (1987) Additional materials of Metasqualodon symmetricus (Cetacea: Mammalia) from the Oligocene Ashiya Japan, Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 7, 133-138
Fitzgerald E. M. G. (2004) A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia, Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61 2, 183-208
Uhen M. D. (2008) A new Xenorophus-like odontocete cetacean form the Oligocene of North Carolina and a discussion of the basal odontocete radiation, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6 4, 433-452 doi:10.1017/S1477201908002472
Steeman M. (2010) The extinct baleen whale fauna from the Miocene-Pliocene of Belgium and the diagnostic cetacean ear bones, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8 1, 63-80
Martinez-Cáceres M., Muizon C. (2011) A new basilosaurid (Cetacea, Pelagiceti) from the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene Otuma Formation of Peru, Comptes Rendus Palevol 10, 517-526 doi:0.1016/j.crpv.2011.03.006
Uhen M. D., Pyenson N. D., et al (2011) New middle Eocene whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru, Journal of Paleontology 85 5, 955-969 doi:10.1666/10-162.1
Kalmykov N. P. (2012) New finding of the ancient whale Basilosaurus (Cetacea, Archaeoceti: Basilosauridae) in the Lower Don Area, Doklady Earth Sciences 442 2, 178-180
Uhen M. D. (2013) A review of North American Basilosauridae, Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31 2, 1-45
Goldin P., Zvonok E., et al (2014) Basilotritus (Cetacea: Pelagiceti) from the Eocene of Nagornoye (Ukraine): New data on anatomy,ontogeny and feeding of early basilosaurids, Comptes Rendus Palevol doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2013.11.002
Buono M. R., Fernández M. S., et al (2016) Eocene basilosaurid whales from the La Meseta Formation, Marambio (Seymour) Island, Antarctica, Ameghiniana 53 3, 296-315 doi:10.5710/AMGH.02.02.2016.2922
Godfrey S., Uhen M. D., et al (2016) A new specimen of Agorophius pygmaeus (Agorophiidae, Odontoceti, Cetacea) from the early Oligocene Ashley Formation of South Carolina, USA, Journal of Paleontology 90 1, 154-169 doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.4
Marx F. G., Lambert O., et al (2016) Cetacean Paleobiology, 1-319
Peredo C. M., Uhen M. D. (2016) A new basal chaeomysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Late Oligocene Pysht Formation of Washington, USA, Papers in Palaeontology 2 4, 533-554 doi:10.5061/dryad.3sm6t
Berta A. (2017) , The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution, 1-198
Bisconti M., Lambert O., et al (2017) Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species, PeerJ 5, e3464 doi:10.7717/peerj.3464
Collareta A., Lambert O., et al (2017) Koristocetus pescei gen. et sp. nov., a diminutive sperm whale (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae) from the late Miocene of Peru, Fossil Record 20, 259-278 doi:10.5194/fr-20-259-2017
Godfrey S. J., Barnes L. G., et al (2017) The Early Miocene odontocete Araeodelphis natator Kellogg, 1957 (Cetacea; Platanistidae), from the Calvert Formation of Maryland, U.S.A, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1278607 doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1278607
Lambert O., de Muizon C., et al (2017) A new odontocete (toothed cetacean) from the Early Miocene of Peru expands the morphological disparity of extinct heterodont dolphins, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1359689
Martínez-Cáceres M., Lambert O., et al (2017) The anatomy and phylogenetic affinities of Cynthiacetus peruvianus, a large Dorudon-like basilosaurid (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of Peru, Geodiversitas 39 1, 1-163 doi:10.5252/g2017n1a1
Lambert O., Auclair C., et al (2018) A close relative of the Amazon river dolphin in marine deposits: a new Iniidae from the late Miocene of Angola, PeerJ 6 e5556, 1-33 doi:10.7717/peerj.5556
Nelson M. D., Uhen M. D. (2018) First occurrence of a squalodelphinid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Washington State, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1428197
Peredo C. M., Pyenson N. D., et al (2018) Tooth loss precedes the origin of baleen in whales, Current Biology 28, 1-9 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.10.047
Peredo C., Uhen M. D., et al (2018) A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early Miocene Astoria Formation and a revision of the stem delphinidan family Kentriodontidae, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1411357 doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1411357
Collareta A., Fulgosi F. C., et al (2019) A new kogiid sperm whale from northern Italy supports psychrospheric conditions in the early Pliocene Mediterranean Sea, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 3, 609-626 doi:10.4202/app.00578.2018
de Muizon C., Bianucci G., et al (2019) Mystacodon selenensis, the earliest known toothed mysticete (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of Peru: anatomy, phylogeny, and feeding adaptations, Geodiversitas 41 11, 401-499 doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a11
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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