Cetotheriidae

Cetotheriidae
Temporal range: Chattian–Recent
Cetotherium riabinini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Mysticeti
Family: Cetotheriidae
Brandt 1872
Subfamilies and genera

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Synonyms

Neobalaenidae? Miller, 1923

Cetotheriidae is a family of baleen whales (parvorder Mysticeti).[1] The family is known to have existed from the Late Oligocene to the Early Pleistocene before going extinct. Although some phylogenetic studies conducted by Fordyce & Marx 2013 recovered the living pygmy right whale as a member of Cetotheriidae, making the pygmy right whale the only living cetotheriid, other authors either dispute this placement or recover Neobalaenidae as a sister group to Cetotheriidae.

  1. ^ "Cetotheriidae". Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.