Concise hierarchy
(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla
Original position
Current position
Alternative positions
| Balaenoidea (Superfamily) Flower, 1865 |
Ref:
F.G. Marx et al., 2016: fig. 4.11.
[alternative position] |
| Mysticeti (Suborder) Cope, 1891 |
Ref:
D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 60; Miller, 1923.
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| Mysticeti (Parvorder) Cope, 1891 |
Ref:
C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27); Burgin et al., 2020: fig. 1.
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| Plicogulae (Clade) Geisler, McGowen, Young & Gatesy, 2011 |
Ref:
F.G. Marx et al., 2016: fig. 4.11.
[implicit] |
Historical positions
| Mysticeti (Parvorder) Cope, 1891 |
Ref:
C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
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| Plicogulae (Clade) Geisler, McGowen, Young & Gatesy, 2011 |
Ref:
F.G. Marx et al., 2016: 110-112, fig. 4.11.
[implicit] |
| Balaenoidea (Superfamily) Flower, 1865 |
Ref:
F.G. Marx et al., 2016: fig. 4.11.
[alternative position] |
| Mysticeti (Suborder) Cope, 1891 |
Ref:
D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 60.
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| Mysticeti (Suborder) Cope, 1891 |
Ref:
J.G. Mead & R.L. Brownell Jr., 1993: 351; 6, 349.
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Number of Subtaxa