- teeth,
Scaldicetus as
generally recognized appears to be a
wastebasket taxon filled with more-or-less
unrelated primitive sperm whales.
Scaldicetus is known...
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consist of six genera: Acrophyseter, Albicetus, Brygmophyseter, Livyatan,
Scaldicetus, and Zygophyseter. All
species are
known by at
least a skull, and are...
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whale Scaldicetus shigensis Hirota and Barnes, 1995".
Bulletin of the
Gunma Museum of
Natural History. 103: 1–23. "Shigamakkoukujira (
Scaldicetus shigensis)"...
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subfamily Hoplocetinae,
alongside the
genera Diaphorocetus, Idiorophus,
Scaldicetus and Hoplocetus,
which are
known from the
Miocene to the
lower Pliocene...
- Helvicetus, Idiorophus, Diaphorocetus, Aulophyseter, Orycterocetus,
Scaldicetus, and Placoziphius,
while kogiid fossil genera include Kogiopsis, Scaphokogia...
- Ferecetotherium, Idiorophus, Diaphorocetus, Aulophyseter, Orycterocetus,
Scaldicetus, Placoziphius,
Zygophyseter and Acrophyseter. Ferecetotherium, found...
- remains,
mostly teeth, of the
genus Scaldicetus were re****igned to
these raptorials,
including Z. varolai.
Scaldicetus is now
considered to be a
grade taxon...
-
macroraptorial sperm whales, such as Zygophyseter, as well as
those of
Scaldicetus caretti. They
display a
large degree of ab****n,
suggesting a highly...
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South Africa circa 5
million years ago. Others, such as
Hoplocetus and
Scaldicetus also
occupied a
niche similar to that of
modern killer whales but the...
-
Hoplocetinae has been
proposed to
house this group,
alongside the
genera Scaldicetus, Diaphorocetus,
Idiorophus and Hoplocetus. However, this
grouping is...
