†superfamily Protocetoidea Mitchell 1989 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

Full reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1989. A new cetacean from the late Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46(12):2219-2235

Parent taxon: Cetacea according to D. W. Rice 2009

See also Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Gingerich 2005, Mitchell 1989 and Rice 1998

Sister taxa: Ambulocetidae, Anarnak, Archaeocetus, Argyrocetidae, Balaenodontae, Balaenoidorum, Berardiopsis miocaenus, Berardiopsis pliocaenus, Canis primigenius, Cetotheriomorphus dubius, Cetotherium priscum, Cetotolites, Globicephalus eocaenus, Halicore maximovitschii, Loncodelphis, Manatus giganteus, Mystacoceta, Nanisocetus, Neoballaenidae, Otaria leclercii, Oxypterus, Pakicetidae, Palaeocetus, Pelagiceti, Procetus, Proteroceta, Protocetidae, Remingtonocetidae, Remingtonocetoidea, Rhynchoceti, Tretosphrys, Zeugloceta, Ziphius blasii, Balanadae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Protocetoidea in the database

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