Mammalodontidae

Mammalodontidae Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cetacea
Suborder:	Mysticeti
Family:	Mammalodontidae Mitchell, 1989
Genera
Janjucetus Mammalodon
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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