Llanocetidae

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Llanocetidae
Temporal range: Late Eocene, Priabonian
Llanocetus denticrinatus.jpg
Skull of Llanocetus at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Mysticeti
Family: Llanocetidae
, 1989
Genera

Llanocetidae is an extinct family of ancient toothed baleen whales from the Eocene. It was named by American paleontologist in 1989 after describing the Antarctic Llanocetus,[1] but a 2018 study by paleontologists and Felix Marx included the Peruvian Mystacodon and an undescribed New Zealand specimen OU GS10897.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.


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