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Taxonomy
Tasmacetus was named by Oliver (1937). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Lambert et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Tasmacetina by Moore (1968); to Hyperoodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Ziphiinae by Kasuya (1973), Muizon (1990), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); to Ziphiina by Mead and Brownell (2005); and to Ziphiidae by Oliver (1937), Simpson (1945), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Fordyce (1982), Loughlin and Perez (1985), Rice (1998), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Lambert (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Lambert et al. (2009), Bianucci et al. (2010), Geisler et al. (2011), Lambert et al. (2013), Marx et al. (2016), Bianucci et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Tasmacetina by Moore (1968); to Hyperoodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Ziphiinae by Kasuya (1973), Muizon (1990), Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); to Ziphiina by Mead and Brownell (2005); and to Ziphiidae by Oliver (1937), Simpson (1945), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Fordyce (1982), Loughlin and Perez (1985), Rice (1998), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Lambert (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Lambert et al. (2009), Bianucci et al. (2010), Geisler et al. (2011), Lambert et al. (2013), Marx et al. (2016), Bianucci et al. (2024).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1937 | Tasmacetus Oliver p. 372 figs. Plates I-V |
| 1945 | Tasmacetus Simpson p. 102 |
| 1963 | Tasmacetus Scheffer and Rice p. 8 |
| 1968 | Tasmacetus Moore p. 276 |
| 1973 | Tasmacetus Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1982 | Tasmacetus Fordyce p. 423 |
| 1985 | Tasmacetus Loughlin and Perez p. 1 |
| 1990 | Tasmacetus Muizon p. 296 |
| 1997 | Tasmacetus McKenna and Bell p. 383 |
| 1998 | Tasmacetus Rice p. 87 |
| 2001 | Tasmacetus Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2003 | Tasmacetus Geisler and Sanders p. 29 |
| 2005 | Tasmacetus Lambert p. 465 |
| 2005 | Tasmacetus Mead and Brownell p. 743 |
| 2008 | Tasmacetus Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2009 | Tasmacetus Lambert et al. p. 919 figs. Fig. 10 |
| 2010 | Tasmacetus Bianucci et al. p. 1093 figs. Figure 14 |
| 2011 | Tasmacetus Geisler et al. p. 5 figs. Table 1 |
| 2013 | Tasmacetus Lambert et al. p. 588 figs. Figure 14 |
| 2016 | Tasmacetus Marx et al. p. 130 |
| 2024 | Tasmacetus Bianucci et al. p. 32 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Tasmacetus Oliver 1937
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Tasmacetus shepherdi Oliver 1937 [Shepherd's beaked whale]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Holocene | Saint Helena (Tristan da Cunha) | T. shepherdi (82084 82085 82086) | |
| Holocene | Argentina | T. shepherdi (168372) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Victoria) | T. shepherdi (168375) | |
| Holocene | Chile | T. shepherdi (168373) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand (North Island) | T. shepherdi (86905) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | T. shepherdi (168374) |