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Physeter vetus

Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae

Taxonomy
Catodon vetus was named by Leidy (1869) [ANSP 11258 may represent these teeth (Spammer et al., 1995)]. Its type specimen is ANSP 11258, a set of teeth, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was synonymized objectively with Physeter antiquus by Trouessart (1898); it was recombined as Physeter antiquus vetus by Trouessart (1904); it was recombined as Physeter vetus by Cope (1875), Hay (1902), Rhoads (1903) and Hay (1930).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
Year Name and author
1853 Physeter antiquus Leidy p. 378
1860 Physeter antiquus Holmes p. 117
1860 Physeter antiquus Leidy p. 117
1867 Physeter antiquus Cope p. 144
1868 Physeter antiquus Cope p. 739
1869 Catodon vetus Leidy p. 436
1875 Physeter vetus Cope p. 50
1876 Physiter antiquus Lawley p. 111
1894 Physeter antiquus Paquier p. 46
1898 Physeter antiquus Trouessart p. 1055
1902 Physeter vetus Hay p. 595
1903 Physeter vetus Rhoads p. 248
1904 Physeter antiquus vetus Trouessart p. 774
1930 Physeter vetus Hay p. 599

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Rank Name Author
kingdom Animalia ()
— Bilateria
— Eubilateria Ax 1987
— Deuterostomia
phylum Chordata Haeckel 1874
subphylum Vertebrata
superclass Gnathostomata
— Osteichthyes ()
subclass Sarcopterygii ()
subclass Dipnotetrapodomorpha (Nelson 2006)
subclass Tetrapodomorpha ()
— Tetrapoda
— Reptiliomorpha
— Anthracosauria
subclass Amphibiosauria Kuhn 1967
— Cotylosauria ()
— Amniota
subclass Synapsida
— Therapsida ()
infraorder Cynodontia ()
— Mammaliamorpha
— Mammaliaformes
class Mammalia
— Theriamorpha (Rowe 1993)
Rank Name Author
— Theriiformes ()
— Trechnotheria
— Cladotheria
— Zatheria
subclass Tribosphenida ()
subclass Theria
— Eutheria ()
— Placentalia
— Boreoeutheria
— Laurasiatheria
— Scrotifera
— Euungulata
— Artiodactylamorpha
— Artiodactyla ()
— Whippomorpha
order Cetacea
— Pelagiceti
— Neoceti
suborder Odontoceti
superfamily Physeteroidea
family Physeteridae
genus Physeter
species vetus ()

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.

†Physeter vetus Leidy 1869
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Invalid names: Physeter antiquus Leidy 1853 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available