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Morenocetus ✝

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Morenocetus is an extinct genus of primitive balaenid from the Early Micoene (Burdigalian and Colhuehuapian in the SALMA classification) Gaiman Formation of Patagonia, Argentina.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morenocetus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4832434	https://www.gbif.org/species/4832434
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	36776	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36776

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Balaenidae : Morenocetus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Cetacea	Brisson 1762
-	Pelagiceti	Uhen 2008
-	Neoceti	Fordyce and de Muizon 2001
suborder	Mysticeti	Cope 1891
-	Chaeomysticeti
family	Balaenidae	Gray 1821
genus	Morenocetus	Cabrera 1926

Scientific Name

Morenocetus Cabrera, 1926

Name Published In

Rev. Mus. La Plata, 29

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	stated without evidence	Cabrera, 1926
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	stated without evidence	Benton, 1993
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	stated without evidence	Fordyce, 2002
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Cetacea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	stated without evidence	Steeman, 2007
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Cetotheriidae	stated without evidence	Canto et al., 2010
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	stated without evidence	Cione et al., 2011
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	stated with evidence	Marx and Fordyce, 2015
Morenocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenidae	stated without evidence	Berta, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 2.6 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

marine (based on Mysticeti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Balaenidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Cetacea)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Mysticeti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. Cabrera. 1926. Cetaceos fossiles del Museo de La Plata. Revista del Museo de La Plata 29:363-411

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morenocetus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Morenocetus parvus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1926	Morenocetus Cabrera p. 364
1928	Morenocetus Kellogg p. 35 figs. Table 1
1942	Morenocetus Kellogg p. 449
1945	Morenocetus Simpson p. 105
1988	Morenocetus Carroll
1993	Morenocetus Benton p. 762
1996	Morenocetus Cozzuol p. 324
1997	Morenocetus McKenna and Bell p. 378
2002	Morenocetus Fordyce p. 54A

Year	Name and Author
2002	Morenocetus Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Morenocetus Steeman p. 880
2010	Morenocetus Canto et al. p. 13
2011	Morenocetus Cione et al. p. 428
2012	Morenocetus Churchill et al. p. 19
2015	Morenocetus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2016	Morenocetus Marx et al. p. 108
2017	Morenocetus Berta p. 167
2017	Morenocetus Buono et al. p. 11

References

Cabrera A. (1926) Cetaceos fossiles del Museo de La Plata, Revista del Museo de La Plata 29, 363-411

Kellogg R. (1942) Tertiary, Quaternary, and recent marine mammals of South America and the West Indies, Proceedings of the Eighth American Scientific Congress 3, 445-473

Simpson G. G. (1945) The principles of classification and a classification of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85, 1-350

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Benton M. J. (1993) , The Fossil Record 2, 1-845

Cozzuol M. A. (1996) The record of aquatic mammals in southern South America, Munchner Geowissenshaftliche Abhandlungen. A, Geoligie und Palaontologie 30, 321-342

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Fordyce R. E. (2002) Oligocene origins of skim-feeding right whales: A small archaic balaenid from New Zealand, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 3, 54A

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Steeman M. E. (2007) Cladistic analysis and a revised classification of fossil and recent mysticetes, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150, 875-894

Canto J., Yanez J., et al (2010) Estado actual del conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de Chile, Estudios Geologicos 66 2, 255-284 doi:10.3989/egeol.39778.05

Marx F. G., Fordyce R. E. (2015) Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity, Royal Society Open Science 2, 140434 doi:10.1098/rsos.140434

Marx F. G., Lambert O., et al (2016) Cetacean Paleobiology, 1-319

Berta A. (2017) , The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution, 1-198

Buono M. R., Fernandez M. S., et al (2017) The early Miocene balaenid Morenocetus parvus from Patagonia (Argentina) and the evolution of right whales, PeerJ 5, e4148 doi:10.7717/peerj.4148

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Rev. Mus. La Plata, 29 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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