Tagicetus

Extinct genus of mammals

Tagicetus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Kentriodontidae
Genus: Tagicetus
Lambert, Stevens, and Smith, 2005
Species
  • T. joneti Lambert, Stevens, and Smith, 2005

Tagicetus is an extinct genus of dolphin belonging to the polyphyletic family Kentriodontidae.[1]

Although classified in the subfamily Kentriodontinae by Lambert et al. (2005), recent cladistic analysis places it as closer to extant delphinoids than to Kentriodon.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ O. Lambert, M. Estevens, and R. Smith. 2005. A new kentriodontine from the middle Miocene of Portugal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(2):239-248
  2. ^ Olivier Lambert, Giovanni Bianucci, Mario Urbina, Jonathan H. Geisler; A new inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from the Miocene of Peru and the origin of modern dolphin and porpoise families. Zool J Linn Soc 2017; 179 (4): 919-946. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12479
  3. ^ Post K, Louwye S, Lambert O. (2017) Scaldiporia vandokkumi, a new pontoporiid (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene to earliest Pliocene of the Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands) PeerJ 5:e3991 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3991
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Odontocete genera
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Class: Mammalia
  • Order: Artiodactyla
  • Infraorder: Cetacea
Odontoceti
Odontoceti
Xenorophidae
Waipatiidae
Squalodontidae
Squaloziphiidae
Eurhinodelphinidae
Crown-Odontoceti
    • see below↓
Physeteroidea
Kogiidae
Physeteridae
Allodelphinidae?
Squalodelphinidae?
Platanistidae
Berardiinae
Ziphiinae
Hyperoodontinae
Delphinida
    • see below↓
Kentriodontidae
Lipotidae
Iniidae
Pontoporiidae
Monodontidae
Phocoenidae
Lissodelphininae
Delphininae
Globicephalinae
Taxon identifiers
Tagicetus


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