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Chilcacetus

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Extinct genus of mammals

Chilcacetus
Skull
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain:Eukaryota
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Infraorder:Cetacea
Genus:Chilcacetus
Lambert et al. 2015
Species:
C. cavirhinus
Binomial name
Chilcacetus cavirhinus
Lambert et al. 2015

Chilcacetus is an extinct genus of primitive odontocete known from Early Miocene (Aquitanian) of Peru. Fossils were found in and named after theChilcatay Formation of thePisco Basin.[1]

Classification

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Chilcacetus is recovered along it with the putative eurhinodelphinidsArgyrocetus andMacrodelphinus in a clade basal toEoplatanista andEurhinodelphinidae. The authors stressed that updated osteological descriptions ofArgyrocetus andMacrodelphinus are necessary to provide more cladistic analysis support for this grouping.[2]

Description

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The teeth ofChilcacetus are homodont in nature, and the rostrum is long. The presence of a cavity between nasals and mesethmoid on the posterior wall of the bony nares that distinguishes this taxon from other archaic odontocetes, hence the species namecavirhinus. The dorsal surface of the nasal rising anterodorsally, extended edentulous anterior premaxillary portion of the rostrum, and a cranium distinctly shorter than wide uniteChilcacetus withArgyrocetus andMacrodelphinus to the exclusion of all other homodont odontocetes, including eurhinodelphinids.[2]

References

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  1. ^Chilcacetus atFossilworks.org
  2. ^abO. Lambert, C. de Muizon, and G. Bianucci. 2015. A new archaic homodont toothed cetacean (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the early Miocene of Peru. Geodiversitas 37(1):79-108
Odontocete genera
Xenorophidae
Waipatiidae
Squalodontidae
Squaloziphiidae
Eurhinodelphinidae
Crown-Odontoceti
    • see below↓
Physeteroidea
Kogiidae
Physeteridae
Allodelphinidae?
Squalodelphinidae?
Platanistidae
Berardiinae
Ziphiinae
Hyperoodontinae
Delphinida
    • see below↓
Kentriodontidae
Lipotidae
Iniidae
Pontoporiidae
Monodontidae
Phocoenidae
Lissodelphininae
Delphininae
Globicephalinae
Chilcacetus


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