Tagicetus, Lambert & Estevens & Smith, 2005

Lambert, Olivier, Estevens, Mário & Smith, Richard, 2005, A new kentriodontine dolphin from the middle Miocene of Portugal, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50 (2), pp. 239-248 : 240

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13548106

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:498B488D-986A-4F51-9E9F-55F2E5CF980D

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DAD945-FFE9-FF85-FCEC-3A48FA19FB01

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scientific name

Tagicetus
status

 

Genus Tagicetus nov.

Etymology: From Tagus , the Latin name of the river with the same English spelling (in allusion to the Lower Tagus Basin as the area of provenance of the holotype); and cetus, the Latin word for whale.

Diagnosis.—Same as for the type and only known species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Kentriodontidae

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