Biology:Pontobasileus
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Short description: Genus of mammals
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Protocetidae |
| Subfamily: | †Georgiacetinae |
| Genus: | †Pontobasileus Leidy, 1873 |
| Species: | †P. tuberculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Pontobasileus tuberculatus Leidy, 1873
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Pontobasileus is an archaeocete whale known from a fragment of a single tooth described by Leidy 1873.[1][2] It can questionably be dated to the Eocene of Alabama.[3]
Leidy assigned the tooth to Archaeoceti, but without neither a stratigraphic nor a geographic locality it is virtually impossible to argue for or against this classification. The tooth was later classified as an Archaeoceti incertae sedis[4] and even a squalodont odontocete (a more recent whale), but can also be assigned to Protocetidae.[5]
References
- Notes
- ↑ Leidy 1873, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 15
- ↑ "†Pontobasileus Leidy 1873 (whale)". Fossilworks. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=63091.
- ↑ Gillette 1975, p. 65
- ↑ Kellogg 1936, pp. 264–265
- ↑ Hulbert et al. 1998, p. 918
- Sources
- Gillette, D. D. (1975). "Catalogue of Type Specimens of Fossil Vertebrates, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Introduction and Part I: Marine Mammals". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 127: 63–66.
- Hulbert, R. C. Jr.; Petkewich, R. M.; Bishop, G. A.; Bukry, D.; Aleshire, D. P. (1998). "A new middle Eocene protocetid whale (Mammalia: Cetacea: Archaeoceti) and associated biota from Georgia". Journal of Paleontology 72 (5): 907–926. doi:10.1017/S0022336000027232. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257621646. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- (PDF, 48 Mb) A review of the Archaeoceti. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1936. OCLC 681376. http://publicationsonline.carnegiescience.edu/publications_online/archaeoceti.pdf. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- Contributions to the Extinct Vertebrate Fauna of the Western Territories. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. United States. Dept. of the Interior. 1873. pp. 1–358. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40567172#page/350/mode/2up. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Wikidata ☰ Q24884064 entry
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