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Taxonomy
Kurdalagonus adygeicus was named by Tarasenko and Lopatin (2012). Its type specimen is NMRA 10623/3, a partial skull (2 braincase fragments), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is HEPS, which is in a Tortonian deep-water siltstone in the Blinovo Formation of the Russian Federation.
It was recombined as Mithridatocetus adygeicus by Goldin and Startsev (2017).
It was recombined as Mithridatocetus adygeicus by Goldin and Startsev (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2012 | Kurdalagonus adygeicus Tarasenko and Lopatin p. 533 figs. Plate 12, figs. 1 and 2 |
| 2017 | Mithridatocetus adygeicus Goldin and Startsev |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Mithridatocetus adygeicus Tarasenko and Lopatin 2012
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. Goldin and D. Startsev 2017 | A small whale c. 3–4 m long differing from Mithridatocetus eichwaldi in longer parietals exposed on
the skull vertex, a sagittal crest of the parietals, a shorter and smaller and posterolaterally directed paroccipital pro- cess without dorsal inclination, a longer and wider ante- rior process of the periotic, a shorter pars cochlearis and an open facial sulcus. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Uhen 2004 | |||||