Basilosauridae

Taxobox
status_system =
name = Basilosauridae
fossil_range = Late Eocene

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image_caption = "Basilosaurus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Cetacea
subordo = Archaeoceti
familia = Basilosauridae
familia_authority = Cope, 1868
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = see text

Basilosauridae is family of extinct cetaceans lived in tropical seas during the late Eocene.

Taxonomy

*Family Basilosauridae
** Subfamily Basilosaurinae
*** Genus "Basilosaurus"
*** Genus "Basiloterus"
** Subfamily Dorudontinae
*** Genus "Ancalecetus"
*** Genus "Chrysocetus"
*** Genus "Cynthiacetus"
*** Genus "Dorudon"
*** Genus "Zygorhiza"
** Subfamily Kekenodontinae
*** Genus "Kekenodon"
*** Genus "Phococetus"

ee also

* Evolution of cetaceans