Cetancodontamorpha Explained

Cetancodontamorpha is a total clade of artiodactyls[1] defined, according to Spaulding et al., as Whippomorpha "plus all extinct taxa more closely related to extant members of Whippomorpha than to any other living species".[2] Attempts have been made to rename the clade Whippomorpha to Cetancodonta, but the former maintains precedent.[3]

Whippomorpha is the crown clade containing Cetacea (whales, dolphins, etc.) and hippopotamuses.[4] Members of the whippomorph stem group (i.e., "stem-whippomorphs") include such taxa as the family Entelodontidae and the genus Andrewsarchus.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A 'consensus cladogram' for artiodactyls. 2015-02-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120516114459/http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/06/artiodactyl_consensus_cladogram.php . 2012-05-16 .
  2. 2740860 . 19774069 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0007062 . 4 . 9 . Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) among mammals: increased taxon sampling alters interpretations of key fossils and character evolution . 2009 . PLOS ONE . e7062. free . Spaulding . Michelle . O'Leary . Maureen A. . Gatesy . John .
  3. Robert J.. Asher. Kristofer M.. Helgen. BMC Evolutionary Biology . 2010. 10. 102 . 10.1186/1471-2148-10-102 . 20406454. 2865478. free.
  4. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/6/93 A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammals
  5. Yu . Yang . Gao . Hongyan . Li . Qiang . Ni . Xijun . 2023-01-01 . A new entelodont (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of China and its phylogenetic implications . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . en . 21 . 1 . 10.1080/14772019.2023.2189436 . 1477-2019.

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