Biology:Llanocetidae
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Short description: Extinct family of whales
Llanocetidae | |
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Skull of Llanocetus at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Parvorder: | Mysticeti |
Family: | †Llanocetidae Mitchell, 1989 |
Genera | |
Llanocetidae is an extinct family of ancient toothed baleen whales from the Eocene. It was named by American paleontologist Edward Mitchell in 1989 after describing the Antarctic Llanocetus,[1] but a 2018 study by paleontologists Ewan Fordyce and Felix Marx included the Peruvian Mystacodon and an undescribed New Zealand specimen OU GS10897.[2]
References
- ↑ Mitchell, E. D. (1989). "A new cetacean from the Late Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula". Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46: 2219–2235. doi:10.1139/f89-273.
- ↑ Fordyce, R. E.; Marx, F. G. (2018). "Gigantism precedes filter feeding in baleen whale evolution". Current Biology 28 (10): 1670–1676. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.027. PMID 29754903.
Wikidata ☰ Q21299780 entry
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