Cetacea

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<==Cetacea [Archaeoceti, Pakicetidae]
   |  i. s.: Himalayacetus Bajpai & Gingerich 1998
   |         Ichthyolestes Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
   |           `--I. pinfoldi
   |         Prionodelphis rovereti Frenguelli 1922
   |--Nalacetus Thewissen & Hussain 1998
   |    `--N. ratimitus
   `--+--Pakicetus Gingerich & Russell 1981
      |    |--P. attocki (West 1980)
      |    `--P. inachus Gingerich & Russell 1981
      `--+--Ambulocetidae
         |    |--Gandakasia Dehm & Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
         |    `--Ambulocetus Thewissen et al. 1994
         |         `--A. natans
         `--+--Remingtonocetidae
            |    |--Andrewsiphius Sahni & Mishra 1975
            |    |--Remingtonocetus Kumar & Sahni 1986
            |    |--Dalanistes Gingerich et al. 1995
            |    |--Attockicetus Thewissen & Hussain 2000
            |    `--Kutchicetus
            `--+--+--Basilosauridae
               |  `--Autoceta
               |       |--Mysticeti
               |       `--Odontoceti
               `--Protocetidae
                    |--Babiacetus Trivedy & Satsangi 1984
                    |--Gaviacetus Gingerich et al. 1995
                    |--Takracetus Gingerich et al. 1995
                    |--Natchitochia Uhen 1998
                    |--Qaisracetus Gingerich et al. 2001
                    |--Artiocetus Gingerich, ul Haq et al. 2001
                    |    `--*A. clavis Gingerich, ul Haq et al. 2001
                    |--Protocetus Fraas 1904
                    |    `--*P. atavus Fraas 1904
                    |--Eocetus Fraas 1904 (see below for synonymy)
                    |    `--*E. schweinfurthi (Fraas 1904) [=Mesocetus schweinfurthi]
                    |--Pappocetus Andrews 1920
                    |    `--*P. lugardi Andrews 1920
                    |--Indocetus Sahni & Mishra 1975
                    |    `--I. ramani Sahni & Mishra 1975
                    |--Georgiacetus Hulbert et al. 1998
                    |    `--G. vogtlensis
                    `--Rodhocetus Gingerich, Raza et al. 1994
                         |--*R. kasranii
                         `--R. balochistanensis Gingerich, ul Haq et al. 2001

Eocetus Fraas 1904 [incl. Mesocetus Fraas 1904 nec van Beneden 1880 nec Moreno 1892]

* Type species of generic name indicated

[edit] References

Barnes, L. G., D. P. Domning & C. E. Ray. 1985. Status of studies on fossil marine mammals. Marine Mammal Science 1 (1): 15-53.

Barnes, L. G., & E. Mitchell. 1978. Cetacea. In Evolution of African Mammals (V. J. Maglio & H. B. S. Cooke, eds.) pp. 582-602. Harvard University Press: Cambridge (Massachusetts).

Gatesy, J., & M. A. O’Leary. 2001. Deciphering whale origins with molecules and fossils. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16 (10): 562-570.

Geisler, J. H., & A. E. Sanders. 2003. Morphological evidence for the phylogeny of Cetacea. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 10 (1-2): 23-129.

Gingerich, P. D. 1992. Marine mammals (Cetacea and Sirenia) from the Eocene of Gebel Mokattam and Fayum, Egypt: Stratigraphy, age, and paleoenvironments. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 30: i-ix, 1-84.

Gingerich, P. D. 2003. Land-to-sea transition in early whales: Evolution of Eocene Archaeoceti (Cetacea) in relation to skeletal proportions and locomotion of living semiaquatic mammals. Paleobiology 29 (3): 429-454.

Gingerich, P. D., M. ul Haq, I. S. Zalmout, I. H. Khan & M. S. Malkani. 2001. Origin of whales from early artiodactyls: Hands and feet of Eocene Protocetidae from Pakistan. Science 293: 2239-2242.

O'Leary, M. A. 1998. Phylogenetic and morphometric reassessment of the dental evidence for a mesonychian and cetacean clade. In The Emergence of Whales (J. G. M. Thewissen, ed.) pp. 133-161. Plenum Press: New York.

Thewissen, J. G. M., E. M. Williams, L. J. Roe & S. T. Hussain. 2001. Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls. Nature 413: 277-281.

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