| Source Data | |
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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Platanistidae : Zarhachis : Zarhachis flagellator |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Platanistidae : Zarhachis : Zarhachis flagellator |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Zarhachis |
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| Scientific Name | Zarhachis flagellator Cope, 1868 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Zarhachis flagellator | species | belongs to Zarhachis | stated without evidence | Cope, 1868 | | Zarhachis flagellator | species | belongs to Zarhachis | stated with evidence | Boersma and Pyenson, 2016 | | Zarhachis flagellator | species | belongs to Zarhachis | stated without evidence | Aguirre-Fernández et al., 2017 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 23.0 - 20.4 Ma
Miocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 16.0 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene |
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| Environment | marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Cetacea) |
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| Diet | piscivore (based on Platanistidae) |
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| Reproduction | viviparous (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Ontogeny | modification of parts (based on Cetacea) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | E. D. Cope. 1868. Second contribution to the history of the Vertebrata of the Miocene period of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1868:184-194 |
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| Cope E. D. Second contribution to the history of the Vertebrata of the Miocene period of the United States, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1868, 184-194 |
| Leidy J. The extinct mammalian fauna of Dakota and Nebraska, including an account of some allied forms from other localities, together with a synopsis of the mammalian remains of North America, Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 2, 1-472 |
| Van Beneden P. J., Gervais P. , Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles, comprenant la description et l'iconographie du squelette et du système dentaire de ces animaux; ainsi que des documents relatifs à leur histoire naturelle, 1-634 |
| Trouessart E. L. , Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum 5, 665-1264 |
| Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868 |
| Case E. C. (1904) Systematic Paleontology: Mammalia, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene: Text, 1-58 |
| Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929 |
| Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074 |
| Barnes L. G. (2006) A phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), Beitrage zur Palaontologie 30, 25-42 |
| Uhen M. D., Fordyce R. E., et al (2008) Odontoceti, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America II, 566-606 |
| Geisler J. H., McGowen M. R., et al (2011) A supermatrix analysis of genomic, morphological, and paleontological data from crown Cetacea, BMC Evolutionary Biology 11 112, 1-33 |
| Boersma A., Pyenson N. D. (2016) Arktocara yakataga, a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea, PeerJ 4, e2321 doi:10.7717/peerj.2321 |
| Aguirre-Fernández G., Carillo-Briceño J. D., et al (2017) Fossil Cetaceans (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Neogene of Colombia and Venezuela, Journal of Mammalian Evolution 24 1, 71-90 doi:10.1007/s10914-016-9353-x |
Zarhachis flagellator ✝
