†subfamily Lophocetinae Barnes 1978 (toothed whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kentriodontidae

Full reference: L. G. Barnes. 1978. A review of Lophocetus and Liolithax and their relationships to the delphinoid family Kentriodontidae (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 28:1-35

Parent taxon: Kentriodontidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Barnes 1978, Barnes 1985, Barnes et al. 1985, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Dawson 1996, Foekens 2008, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Ichishima et al. 1995, McKenna and Bell 1997, Valerio and Laurito 2012 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: Heterodelphis, Imerodelphis, Kampholophinae, Kampholophos, Kentriodon, Kentriodontinae, Lamprolithax, Microphocaena, Pithanodelphininae, Portheus patagonicus, Rudicetus, Wimahl

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ceramica Dias Coelho (Miocene of Portugal)

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