Cetotheriidae Temporal range:
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Cetotherium riabinini | |
Scientific 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.
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