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Hoplocetus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene-Early Pleistocene
~16.0–1.8 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Superfamily: Physeteroidea
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: †Hoplocetus
Gervais, 1852
Species
  • H. borgerhoutensis du Bus, 1872
  • H. crassidens Gervais, 1852 (type)
  • H. curvidens Gervais, 1852
  • H. obesus Leidy, 1868[2]
  • H. ritzi Hampe, 2006[3]

Hoplocetus is an extinct genus of raptorial cetacean of the sperm whale superfamily, Physeteroidea.[3] Its remains have been found in the Miocene of Belgium, France, Germany and Malta, the Pliocene of Belgium and France, and the Pleistocene of the United Kingdom and South Carolina.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Hoplocetus in the Paleobiology Database". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Leidy, J. (1868). "Notice of Some Extinct Cetaceans". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 20: 196–197. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  3. ^ a b Hampe, O. (2006). "Middle/late Miocene hoplocetine sperm whale remains (Odontoceti: Physeteridae) of North Germany with an emended classification of the Hoplocetinae". Fossil Record. 9 (1): 61–86. doi:10.1002/mmng.200600002.

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