Mammalia - Cetacea - Pterobalaenidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1870. Observations on the whales described in the Osteographie des Cetaces of MM. Van Beneden and Gervais. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6:193-204
Parent taxon: Mysticeti according to J. E. Gray 1870
Sister taxa: Aetiocetidae, Aetiocetoidea, Amphitera, Aulocetus calaritanus, Aulocetus lovisati, Balaena cortesii, Balaena simpsoni, Borealodon, Burtinopsis, Cetotheriomorphus, Chaeomysticeti, Coronodonidae, Crenaticeti, Eschrichtioidea, Eschrichtius expansus, Eschrichtius leptocentrus, Eschrichtius pusillus, Horopeta, Kinetomenta, Llanocetidae, Maiabalaena, Mammalodontidae, Mauicetus brevicollis, Mesoteras, Mesoteras kerrianus, Metasqualodon, Mioceta, Mystacodontidae, Plesiocetus, Probalaena, Rhegnopsis, Siphonocetus, Squalodon serratus, Toipahautea, Tretulias, Tretulias buccatus, Ulias
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pterobalaenidae in the database