Adicetus
| Adicetus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Cetotheriidae |
| Genus: | † Figueiredo et al., 2024 |
| Type species | |
| †Cetotherium vandelli Van Beneden & Gervais, 1871
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Adicetus is an extinct genus of baleen whale from the Miocene of Almada, Portugal. The type species, A. vandelli, was originally named by Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden and Paul Gervais in 1871 and assigned to the genus Cetotherium.[1] The second species belonging to the genus, A. latus, was named by Kellogg in 1941 as Aulocetus latus.[2] Following a redescription of the material in 2024, the species were assigned to the newly coined genus Adicetus by Rodrigo Figueiredo and colleagues.[3] A. vandelli and A. latus are both known from a single skull, both of which were found during a gold expedition at Adiça beach, and first described by Alexandre Vandelli in 1831, although he did not establish any new species for the material.[4]
References
- ^ Van Beneden, P. J.; Gervais, Paul (1880). Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles, comprenant la description et l'iconographie du squelette et du système dentaire de ces animaux, ainsi que des documents relatifs à leur histoire naturelle. Paris: A. Bertrand. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.50302.
- ^ Kellog, R. (1941). "On the cetotheres figured by Vandelli". Boletim do Museude Mineralogiae Geologiada Universidade de Lisboa. 7 (8): 13–22.
- ^ Figueiredo, R.; Bosselaers, M.; Póvoas, L.; Castanhinha, R. (2024). "Redescription of three fossil baleen whale skulls from the Miocene of Portugal reveals new cetotheriid phylogenetic insights". PLoS ONE. 19 (3): e0298658. Bibcode:2024PLoSO..1998658F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0298658. PMID 38478506.
- ^ Vandelli, A. A. (1831). "Additamentos ou Notasà Memoria Geognostica, ou golpe de vista do Perfil das estratificações das differentes rochas que compõemos terrenos desdea Serra de Cintraatéa de arrábida". Memorias da Accademia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa. 2 (1): 281–306.