Inticetus
This article will address the issue of Inticetus, which has gained great relevance in recent years. Inticetus has become a point of interest for various sectors of society, from experts in the field to the general public. Over time, Inticetus has demonstrated its impact in different areas, generating debates, research and significant changes. That is why it is necessary to deepen its analysis, in order to understand its importance and its implications at a global level. Furthermore, it is important to examine current trends related to Inticetus, as well as possible future scenarios that could arise around this topic.
| Inticetus Temporal range: Early Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Odontoceti |
| Family: | †Inticetidae |
| Genus: | †Inticetus Lambert et al. 2017 |
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Inticetus is an extinct genus of Early Miocene odontocete from the Chilcatay Formation, Pisco Basin, Peru.
Description
Inticetus is distinguished from other archaic heterodont odontocetes by the following features: long and robust rostrum bearing at least 18 teeth per quadrant; the absence of procumbent anterior teeth; many large, broad-based accessory denticles in double-rooted posterior cheek teeth; a reduced ornament of dental crowns; the styliform process of the jugal being markedly robust; a large fovea epitubaria on the periotic, with a correspondingly voluminous accessory ossicle of the tympanic bulla; and a shortened tuberculum of the malleus.[1]
Classification
Inticetus was judged by Lambert et al. to be sufficiently distinct from other archaic heterodont odontocetes to be placed in a new family, Inticetidae. The authors recovered it as either outside crown Odontoceti or as an early-branching member of Platanistoidea.
Phococetus, previously assigned to Kekenodontidae, is apparently a relative of Inticetus.[2]
References
- ^ Olivier Lambert, Christian de Muizon, Elisa Malinverno, Claudio Di Celma, Mario Urbina and Giovanni Bianucci. 2017. A New Odontocete (Toothed Cetacean) from the Early Miocene of Peru Expands the Morphological Disparity of Extinct Heterodont Dolphins. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1359689
- ^ Robert W. Boessenecker (2018). Problematic archaic whale Phococetus (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, USA, with comments on geochronology of the Pungo River Formation. PalZ. in press. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0419-3.
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