Cetancodontamorpha
| Cetacodontamorpha Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Clade: | Cetruminantia |
| Clade: | Cetancodontamorpha Spaulding et al., 2009 |
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Cetancodontamorpha is a total clade of artiodactyls 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".
Whippomorpha is the crown clade containing Cetacea (whales, dolphins, etc.) and hippopotamuses. Members of the whippomorph stem group (i.e., "stem-whippomorphs") include such taxa as the family Entelodontidae and the genus Andrewsarchus.