Mammalodontidae

Mammalodontidae
Mammalodontidae
Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetacea
Suborder: Mysticeti
Family: Mammalodontidae
Mitchell, 1989
Genera
Synonyms
  • Janjucetidae Fitzgerald, 2006

Mammalodontidae is an extinct family of whales known from the Oligocene of Australia.[1]

There are currently two genera is this family: Janjucetus and Mammalodon. After a new cladistic analysis by Fitzgerald (2010), Janjucetus was transferred into Mammalodontidae, thereby making Janjucetidae a junior synonym of Mammalodontidae.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Fitzgerald, E. M. G. (2010). "The morphology and systematics of Mammalodon colliveri (Cetacea: Mysticeti), a toothed mysticete from the Oligocene of Australia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (2): 367–476. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00572.x. 
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