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Medocinia
Taxonomy
Medocinia was named by Muizon (1988). It was considered monophyletic by Lambert et al. (2014).
It was corrected as Medoicinia by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Ziphiidae by Benton (1993); to Squalodelphidae by Muizon (1988) and Muizon (1994); to Hyperoodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Squalodelphinidae by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Lambert et al. (2014), Bianucci et al. (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Godfrey et al. (2017), Kimura (2018), Bianucci et al. (2018) and Nelson and Uhen (2018).
It was corrected as Medoicinia by Sepkoski (2002).
It was assigned to Ziphiidae by Benton (1993); to Squalodelphidae by Muizon (1988) and Muizon (1994); to Hyperoodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Squalodelphinidae by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Lambert et al. (2014), Bianucci et al. (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Godfrey et al. (2017), Kimura (2018), Bianucci et al. (2018) and Nelson and Uhen (2018).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1988 | Medocinia Muizon p. 82 |
| 1993 | Medocinia Benton p. 761 |
| 1994 | Medocinia Muizon p. 136 |
| 1997 | Medocinia McKenna and Bell p. 381 |
| 2001 | Medocinia Fordyce and de Muizon p. 178 |
| 2002 | Medoicinia Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Medocinia Geisler and Sanders p. 28 |
| 2014 | Medocinia Lambert et al. p. 1001 figs. Figure 8 |
| 2015 | Medocinia Bianucci et al. |
| 2016 | Medocinia Marx et al. p. 126 |
| 2017 | Medocinia Godfrey et al. |
| 2018 | Medocinia Bianucci et al. p. 4 |
| 2018 | Medocinia Kimura p. 4 figs. Fig. 4 |
| 2018 | Medocinia Nelson and Uhen |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range: Burdigalian or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | France | Delphinus tetragorhinus (52061) |