Adicetus

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]

Adicetus Temporal range: Miocene (Tortonian), 10 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Suborder:	Whippomorpha
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Cetotheriidae
Genus:	†Adicetus Figueiredo et al., 2024
Type species
†Cetotherium vandelli Van Beneden & Gervais, 1871
Other species
†A. latus Kellogg 1941