Scaldicetus
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Superfamily: | Physeteroidea |
| Family: | Physeteridae |
| Genus: | †Scaldicetus Du Bus, 1867 |
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Scaldicetus is an extinct genus of toothed cetacean related to sperm whales. Although widely used for a number of extinct physeterids with primitive dental morphology consisting of enameled teeth, Scaldicetus as generally recognized appears to be a paraphyletic assemblage of primitive physeteroids.[1]
Taxonomy
The name Scaldicetus caretti was coined in 1867 for numerous physeteroid teeth collected in Neogene deposits near Antwerp, Belgium.[2] Synonyms of Scaldicetus include Palaeodelphis, Homocetus, and Eucetus.[3] The genus Physodon Gervais 1872 was previously considered a synonym, but it has been recently considered a nomen dubium.[4]
"Ontocetus" oxymycterus, described from the middle Miocene (Langhian) of Santa Barbara, California, was assigned to Scaldicetus in 2008,[5] but was subsequently made the type of a new genus, Albicetus.[6]
References
- ↑ Hirota, K.; Barnes, L. G. (1994). "A new species of Middle Miocene sperm whale of the genus Scaldicetus (Cetacea; Physeteridae) from Shiga-mura, Japan". The Island Arc. 3 (4): 453. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00125.x.
- ↑ Du Bus, B.A.L., 1867. Sur quelques Mammifères du Cragd’Anvers. Bulletin de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 24: 562-577.
- ↑ McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.
- ↑ O. Hampe. 2006. Middle/late Miocene hoplocetine sperm whale remains (Odontoceti: Physeteridae) of North Germany with an emended classification of Hoplocetinae. Fossil Record 9(1):61-86
- ↑ Kohno N, Ray CE. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication. 2008;14: 39–80.
- ↑ Alexandra T. Boersma and Nicholas D. Pyenson (2015). "Albicetus oxymycterus, a New Generic Name and Redescription of a Basal Physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Miocene of California, and the Evolution of Body Size in Sperm Whales". PLoS ONE 10 (12): e0135551. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135551.