Cetancodontamorpha

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Cetancodontamorpha
Temporal range: Early Eocene–present
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Clade: Cetruminantia
Clade: Cetancodontamorpha
Spaulding et al., 2009
Subgroups

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.