Eomysticetidae

Eomysticetidae
Temporal range: 33–Aquitanian Ma Oligocene-earliest Miocene[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Superfamily: Eomysticetoidea
Family: Eomysticetidae
Sanders & Barnes, 2002
Genera

Echericetus
Eomysticetus
Maiabalaena?
Matapanui
Micromysticetus
Sitsqwayk?
Tohoraata
Tokarahia
Waharoa
Yamatocetus

Eomysticetidae is a family of extinct mysticetes belonging to Chaeomysticeti (toothless mysticetes). It is one of two families in the basal chaeomysticete clade Eomysticetoidea (the other being Cetotheriopsidae).

  1. ^ R. W. Boessenecker; R. E. Fordyce (2017). "Cosmopolitanism and Miocene survival of Eomysticetidae (Cetacea: Mysticeti) revealed by new fossils from New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 60 (2): 145–157. doi:10.1080/00288306.2017.1300176. S2CID 133204707.