Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Archaeoceti 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Synapsida
Cladus: Eupelycosauria
Cladus: Sphenacodontia
Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea
Ordo: Therapsida
Cladus: Theriodontia
Subordo: Cynodontia
Infraordo: Eucynodontia
Cladus: Probainognathia
Cladus: Prozostrodontia
Cladus: Mammaliaformes
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Trechnotheria
Infraclassis: Zatheria
Supercohort: Theria
Cohort: Eutheria
Cohort: Placentalia
Superordo: Boreoeutheria
Superordo: Laurasiatheria
Ordo: Artiodactyla
Subordo: Whippomorpha
Infraordo: Cetacea
Taxon: †"Archaeoceti"

Familia: †Basilosauridae
Genus: †Dorudon
Species: †Dorudon atrox

Name

Holotype: CGM 9319, a partial skeleton (partial juvenile skull and skeleton).

Type locality and horizon: “Birket-el-Qurun beds (Middle Eocene): a valley about 12 kilometers W.S.W. of the hill called Gar-el-Gehannem.”

Combinations

  • Prozeuglodon atrox Andrews, 1906: 255 [original combination]

References

Pimary references

  • Andrews, C.W. 1906. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt. British Museum (Natural History): London. 324 pp. BHL
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