Cetancodontamorpha

Cetacodontamorpha
Temporal range: Early Eocene to present
Andrewsarchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Clade:Cetruminantia
Clade:Cetancodontamorpha
Spaulding et al., 2009
Genera and Clades

 †Siamotherium
 †Achaenodon
 †Andrewsarchus
 †Anthracotheriidae
 †Entelodontidae
 Whippomorpha

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] Attempts have been made to rename the clade Whippomorpha to Cetancodonta, but the former maintains precedent.[3]

Whippomorpha is the crown clade containing Cetacea (whales, dolphins, etc.) and hippopotamuses.[4] According to Spaulding et al., members of the whippomorph stem group (i.e., "stem-whippomorphs") include such taxa as the family Entelodontidae and the genus Andrewsarchus.

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  2. ↑ "Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution". PLoS ONE. 4 (9): e7062. 2009. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007062. PMC 2740860. PMID 19774069.
  3. ↑ Asher, Robert J.; Helgen, Kristofer M. (2010). "Nomenclature and placental mammal phylogeny". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10: 102. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-102. PMC 2865478. PMID 20406454.
  4. ↑ A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals
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