Cetancodontamorpha Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]