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Tagicetus

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

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Tagicetus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
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.23

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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