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Agorophiidae
Taxonomy
Agorophiidae was named by Abel (1914).
It was assigned to Odontocete by Hay (1930); to Archaeoceti by Abel (1914), Abel (1919) and Van Deinse (1931); to Squalodontoidea by Simpson (1945) and Barnes et al. (1985); to Autoceta by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Agorophioidea by Gingerich (2005); to Odontoceti by Miller (1923), Kellogg (1928), Fordyce (1981), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), Rice (1998), Rice (2002), Fordyce (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Uhen (2005), Uhen et al. (2008), Uhen (2008) and Godfrey et al. (2016); to Odontoceti by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Rice (2009), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017) and Boessenecker and Geisler (2018); and to Stegoceti by Boessenecker and Geisler (2023).
It was assigned to Odontocete by Hay (1930); to Archaeoceti by Abel (1914), Abel (1919) and Van Deinse (1931); to Squalodontoidea by Simpson (1945) and Barnes et al. (1985); to Autoceta by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Agorophioidea by Gingerich (2005); to Odontoceti by Miller (1923), Kellogg (1928), Fordyce (1981), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993), Fordyce and Barnes (1994), Fordyce et al. (1995), Rice (1998), Rice (2002), Fordyce (2002), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Uhen (2005), Uhen et al. (2008), Uhen (2008) and Godfrey et al. (2016); to Odontoceti by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Bianucci and Landini (2007), Rice (2009), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017) and Boessenecker and Geisler (2018); and to Stegoceti by Boessenecker and Geisler (2023).
Subtaxa
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1914 | Agorophiidae Abel p. 219 |
1914 | Microzeuglodontidae Abel p. 219 |
1914 | Agorophiidae Abel p. 220 |
1914 | Microzeuglodontidae Abel p. 220 |
1919 | Agorophiidae Abel p. 751 |
1919 | Microzeuglodoptidae Abel p. 751 |
1923 | Agorophiidae Miller p. 40 |
1928 | Agorophiidae Kellogg p. 32 figs. Table 1 |
1930 | Agorophiidae Hay p. 579 |
1931 | Agorophiidae Van Deinse p. 33 |
1931 | Microzeuglodontidae Van Deinse p. 33 |
1936 | Microzeuglodontinae Slijper p. 540 |
1938 | Microzeuglodontidae Riabinin p. 141 |
1945 | Agorophiidae Simpson p. 100 |
1981 | Agorophiidae Fordyce p. 1041 |
1985 | Agorophiidae Barnes et al. p. 25 |
1988 | Agorophiidae Carroll |
1993 | Agorophiidae Benton p. 762 |
1994 | Agorophiidae Fordyce and Barnes p. 428 figs. Table 1 |
1995 | Agorophiidae Fordyce et al. p. 379 |
1997 | Agorophiidae McKenna and Bell p. 373 |
1998 | Agorophiidae Rice |
2001 | Agorophiidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178 |
2002 | Agorophiidae Fordyce p. 216 |
2002 | Agorophiidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1 |
2003 | Agorophiidae Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
2005 | Agorophiidae Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1 |
2005 | Agorophiidae Uhen p. 1029 |
2007 | Agorophiidae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1 |
2008 | Agorophiidae Uhen p. 445 figs. Table 1 |
2008 | Agorophiidae Uhen et al. p. 570 |
2009 | Agorophiidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1 |
2016 | Agorophiidae Godfrey et al. p. 156 |
2016 | Agorophiidae Marx et al. p. 117 |
2017 | Agorophiidae Berta p. 160 |
2018 | Agorophiidae Boessenecker and Geisler p. 3 |
2023 | Agorophiidae Boessenecker and Geisler p. 152 |
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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.
Fm. †Agorophiidae Abel 1914
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G. †Agorophius Cope 1895
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†Agorophius pygmaeus Muller 1849
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Invalid names: Phocodon holmesii Agassiz 1850 [objective synonym]
Invalid names: Microzeuglodontidae Abel 1914 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Reference: Uhen 2004 |
Collections (11 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Rupelian | USA (South Carolina) | Agorophius pygmaeus (91482) Agorophius sp. (135687) Ankylorhiza sp. (188994) Saurocetus gibbesii (45500) Squalodon tiedemani (55520) Zeuglodon sp. (45761) | |
Chattian | USA (South Carolina) | Agorophius pygmaeus (156031) Agorophius sp. (196878) Agorophius sp., Agorophiidae indet. (211540) Ankylorhiza tiedemani (97550) | |
Aquitanian - Langhian | USA (North Carolina) | Squalodon tiedemani, Squalodon whitmorei (48887) |