Full reference: M. D. Uhen. 2008. New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new cetacean clade, Pelagiceti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):589-593
Parent taxon: Cetacea according to C. de Muizon et al. 2019
See also Alfsen et al. 2021, Belluzzo and Lambert 2021, Berta 2017, Bisconti and Bosselaers 2020, Bisconti et al. 2017, Buono et al. 2016, Collareta et al. 2019, Collareta et al. 2017, Corrie and Fordyce 2024, Fleming et al. 2022, Godfrey et al. 2017, Godfrey and Lambert 2023, Godfrey et al. 2016, Goldin et al. 2014, Lambert et al. 2018, Lambert et al. 2017, Lambert et al. 2021, Martínez-Cáceres et al. 2017, Martinez-Cáceres and Muizon 2011, Marx et al. 2016, Nelson and Uhen 2018, Peredo et al. 2018, Peredo and Pyenson 2018, Peredo and Uhen 2016, Peredo et al. 2018, Steeman 2010, Uhen 2008, Uhen 2008, Uhen 2010, Uhen 2013, Uhen et al. 2011, van Vliet et al. 2023 and van Vliet et al. 2024
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, Procetus, Proteroceta, Protocetidae, Protocetoidea, Remingtonocetidae, Remingtonocetoidea, Rhynchoceti, Tretosphrys, Zeugloceta, Ziphius blasii, Balanadae
Subtaxa: Basilosauridae Kekenodontidae Metasqualodon harwoodi Neoceti
Ecology: aquatic carnivore