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Tagicetus
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| Tagicetus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Kentriodontidae |
| Genus: | †Tagicetus Lambert, Stevens, and Smith, 2005 |
| Species | |
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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
[edit]- ^ O. Lambert, M. Estevens, and R. Smith. 2005. A new kentriodontine from the middle Miocene of Portugal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(2):239-248
- ^ 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
- ^ 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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