Cetancodontamorpha

Cetancodontamorpha Temporal range: Early Eocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Clade:	Cetruminantia
Clade:	Cetancodontamorpha Spaulding et al., 2009
Subgroups
† Siamotherium † Erlianhyus † Wutuhyus †Helohyidae † Andrewsarchus †Entelodontidae Whippomorpha

Cetancodontamorpha is a total clade of artiodactyls ^[1] defined, according to Spaulding et al., as Whippomorpha "plus all extinct taxa more closely related to extant members of Whippomorpha than to any other living species". ^[2]

Whippomorpha is the crown clade containing Cetacea (whales, dolphins, etc.) and hippopotamuses. ^[3] Members of the whippomorph stem group (i.e., "stem-whippomorphs") include such taxa as the family Entelodontidae and the genus Andrewsarchus . ^[4]

References

1. "A 'consensus cladogram' for artiodactyls". Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
2. Spaulding, Michelle; O'Leary, Maureen A.; Gatesy, John (2009). "Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution". PLOS ONE. 4 (9) e7062. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.7062S. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007062 . PMC   2740860 . PMID   19774069.
3. A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals
4. Yu, Yang; Gao, Hongyan; Li, Qiang; Ni, Xijun (2023-01-01). "A new entelodont (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of China and its phylogenetic implications" . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). Bibcode:2023JSPal..2189436Y. doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2189436. ISSN   1477-2019.