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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.

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

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
Odontocete genera
Odontoceti
Odontoceti
Xenorophidae
Waipatiidae
Squalodontidae
Squaloziphiidae
Eurhinodelphinidae
Crown-Odontoceti
    • see below↓
Crown-Odontoceti
Physeteroidea
Kogiidae
Physeteridae
Platanistoidea
Allodelphinidae?
Squalodelphinidae?
Platanistidae
Ziphiidae
Berardiinae
Ziphiinae
Hyperoodontinae
Delphinida
    • see below↓
Delphinida
Delphinida
Kentriodontidae
Lipotidae
Inioidea
Iniidae
Pontoporiidae
Delphinoidea
Monodontidae
Phocoenidae
Delphinidae
Lissodelphininae
Delphininae
Globicephalinae
Taxon identifiers
Tagicetus


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