Tagicetus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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| taxon = Tagicetus

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• T. joneti Lambert, Stevens, and Smith, 2005

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Tagicetus is an extinct genus of dolphin belonging to the polyphyletic family Kentriodontidae.O. Lambert, M. Estevens, and R. Smith. 2005. A new kentriodontine from the middle Miocene of Portugal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(2):239-248

Although classified in the subfamily Kentriodontinae by Lambert et al. (2005), recent cladistic analysis places it as closer to extant delphinoids than to Kentriodon.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.12479Post 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