Cetancodontamorpha

Cetancodontamorpha
Cetacodontamorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Cetruminantia
(unranked): Cetancodontamorpha
Spaulding et al., 2009
Subtaxa

 †Siamotherium
 †Achaenodon
 †Andrewsarchus
 †Entelodontidae
 Cetancodonta

Cetancodontamorpha (or pan-Cetancodonta) is a total clade of artiodactyls[1] defined, according to Spaulding et al., as "Cetancodonta plus all extinct taxa more closely related to extant members of Cetancodonta than to any other living species."[2] Cetancodonta is the crown clade containing Cetacea (whales, dolphins, etc.) and hippopotamuses.[3] According to Spaulding et al., members of the cetancodont stem group (i.e., "stem-cetancodonts") include such taxa as Entelodontidae and Andrewsarchus.

References

  1. ^ http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/06/artiodactyl_consensus_cladogram.php#comments
  2. ^ . PMC 2740860. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2740860. 
  3. ^ A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals


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