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Thinocetus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4835705	https://www.gbif.org/species/4835705
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	53146	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=53146

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Artiodactyla : Diorocetidae : Thinocetus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Thinocetus

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
-	Plicogulae	Geisler et al. 2011
superfamily	Balaenopteroidea	Gray 1868
genus	Thinocetus	Kellogg 1969

Scientific Name

Thinocetus Kellogg, 1969

Name Published In

Bull. U.S. Natn. Mus. 294

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thinocetus	genus	belongs to Cetotheriidae	stated without evidence	Kellogg, 1969
Thinocetus	genus	belongs to Cetotheriidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Thinocetus	genus	belongs to Diorocetidae	stated without evidence	Steeman, 2007
Thinocetus	genus	belongs to Cetotheriidae	stated without evidence	Whitmore and Barnes, 2008
Thinocetus	genus	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Uhen et al., 2008
Thinocetus	genus	belongs to Balaenopteroidea	stated with evidence	Marx and Fordyce, 2015
Thinocetus	genus	belongs to Cetotheriidae	stated without evidence	Berta, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

13.8 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

13.8 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine (based on Mysticeti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

carnivore, suspension feeder (based on Mysticeti)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Cetacea)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Mysticeti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R Kellogg. 1969. Cetothere skeletons from the Miocene Choptank Formation of Maryland and Virginia. Bulletin - U.S. National Museum 294:1-40

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Thinocetus arthritus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	13.8 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1969	Thinocetus Kellogg
1994	Thinocetus Gottfried et al. p. 233
1997	Thinocetus McKenna and Bell p. 376
2007	Thinocetus Steeman p. 880
2008	Thinocetus Uhen et al. p. 617
2008	Thinocetus Whitmore and Barnes p. 173
2015	Thinocetus Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2017	Thinocetus Berta p. 168

References

Kellogg R (1969) Cetothere skeletons from the Miocene Choptank Formation of Maryland and Virginia, Bulletin - U.S. National Museum 294, 1-40

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

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

Uhen M. D., Fordyce R. E., et al (2008) Mysticeti, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America II, 607-628

Whitmore F. C., Barnes L. G. (2008) The Herpetocetinae, a new subfamily of extinct baleen whales (Mammalia, Cetacea, Cetotheriidae), Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14, 141-180

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

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

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. U.S. Natn. Mus. 294 - 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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