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Cetotherium rathkii

Mammalia - Cetacea

Taxonomy
Cetotherium rathkii was named by Brandt (1843) [No type specimen listed in Brandt 1843. It appears to be from the Taman Peninsula. ]. Its type specimen is PIN 1840/1, a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kertsch, which is in a Tortonian coastal limestone in Ukraine. It is the type species of Cetotherium.

It was corrected as Cetotherium rathkei by Pictet (1853), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Abel (1938), Bouetel (2005), Bouetel and Muizon (2006), Marx (2011), Tarasenko and Lopatin (2012).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. hupschii

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1843Cetotherium rathkii Brandt pp. 145-148
1853Cetotherium rathkei Bronn p. 755
1853Cetotherium rathkei Pictet p. 388
1873Cetotherium rathkii Brandt p. 143
1898Cetotherium rathkei Trouessart p. 1070
1902Cetotherium rathkii Hay p. 598
1904Cetotherium rathkei Trouessart p. 779
1938Cetotherium rathkei Abel p. 6
1968Cetotherium rathkii Kellogg p. 123
2002Cetotherium rathkii Kimura and Ozawa p. 696
2003Cetotherium rathkii Fordyce p. 165
2005Cetotherium rathkei Bouetel p. 139
2006Cetotherium rathkei Bouetel and Muizon p. 384
2008Cetotherium rathkii Uhen et al. p. 612
2011Cetotherium rathkei Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2
2012Cetotherium rathkei Tarasenko and Lopatin p. 532
2013Cetotherium rathkii Bisconti et al. p. 121
2014Cetotherium rathkii Goldin and Startsev p. 419 figs. Figure 13
2015Cetotherium rathkii Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10
2015Cetotherium rathkii Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2016Cetotherium rathkii Marx et al. p. 22 figs. Figure 10
2017Cetotherium rathkii Goldin and Startsev figs. Table 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
—Chaeomysticeti()
subfamilyCetotheriidae()
subfamilyCetotheriinae
genusCetotherium
speciesrathkii

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.

†Cetotherium rathkii Brandt 1843
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatitesubo
Form: roller-shapedo
Ontogeny: modification of partso
Environment: marinesubo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: aquaticsubo
Depth habitat: surfaceo
Diet: carnivoresubo
Diet 2: suspension feedersubo
Reproduction: viviparouso
Created: 2005-03-06 14:20:41
Modified: 2005-03-06 16:34:40
Source: subo = suborder, o = order
Reference: Uhen 2004

Age range: base of the Badenian to the top of the Tortonian or 13.82000 to 7.24600 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Badenian13.82 - 12.8Bosnia and Herzegovina Cetotherium rathkei (104804)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Ukraine Cetotherium rathkei (88545)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Ukraine (Crimea) Cetotherium rathkii (type locality: 85514)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Russian Federation Cetotherium rathkii (152907)