Mammalia - Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Full reference: A. E. Sanders and L. G. Barnes. 2002. Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 3: Eomysticetidae, a new family of primitive mysticetes (Mammalia: Cetacea). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93:313-356
Parent taxon: Chaeomysticeti according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bisconti 2008, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2017, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Hernández Cisneros et al. 2017, Hernández-Cisneros and Nava-Sánchez 2022, Marx et al. 2016, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Marx et al. 2016, Okazaki 2012, Rice 2009, Sanders and Barnes 2002, Steeman 2007 and Uhen et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Balaenomorpha, Cetotheriidae, Cetotheriopsidae, Cetotheriopsis, Cetotherium incertum, Cetotherium klinderi, Cetotherium pusillum, Eomysticetoidea, Halicetus, Jobancetus, Megapteropsis, Piscocetus, Plicogulae, Sitsqwayk, Tlaxcallicetus, Whakakai
Subtaxa: Echericetus Eomysticetus Matapanui Micromysticetus Tokarahia Waharoa Yamatocetus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Mexico (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (10), United States (5: South Carolina, Virginia)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (2)
Total: 24 collections including 28 occurrences