Clade Physeterida Muizon 1988 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1988. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Troisieme partie: Les Odontocetes (Cetacea, Mammalia) du Miocene. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations (78)1-244

Parent taxon: Physeteroidea according to G. Bianucci and W. Landini 2007

See also Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Muizon 1988 and Muizon 1994

Sister taxa: Acrophyseter, Albicetus, Angelocetus, Brygmophyseter, Cozzuoliphyseter, Eudelphis, Ferecetotherium, Hoplocetus, Kogiidae, Livyatan, Miophyseter, Physeteridae, Preaulophyseter, Rhaphicetus, Scaldicetus, Zygophyseter

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Physeterida in the database

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