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Crown clade: Cetacea Brisson 1762 (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla

Phylogeny

Crown clade Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 103: "Node-based crown clade").

Current position

Whippomorpha (Clade) Waddell, Okada & Hasegawa 1999 Ref: X. Zhou et al., 2012: 160

Alternative positions

Cetaceamorpha (Clade) Spaulding et al. 2009 Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 103).

Historical positions

Whippomorpha (Clade) Waddell, Okada & Hasegawa 1999 Ref: F.G. Marx et al., 2016: figs. 4.1, 4.3.
Cetaceamorpha (Clade) Spaulding et al. 2009 Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 103).

Number of Subtaxa

2016 F.G. Marx et al.: 141 [13f;39g; ‡1f;1g; †28f;236g]
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