Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Alternative spellings: Cetotheriinae, Cetotherinae
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1872. Uber eine neue Classification der Bartenwale (Balaenoidea) mit Berucksichtigung der untergegangenen Gattungen derselben. Bulletin d L'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 26:113-130
Parent taxon: Chaeomysticeti according to F. G. Marx et al. 2019
See also Barnes et al. 1985, Benton 1993, Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bisconti 2014, Bisconti et al. 2013, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Brandt 1873, Brandt 1874, Buono et al. 2017, Canto et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Cozzuol 1996, El Adli et al. 2014, Figueiredo et al. 2024, Fordyce 2003, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Gol'din 2018, Gol'din and Steeman 2015, Goldin et al. 2014, Goldin and Startsev 2017, Hay 1930, Kellogg 1928, Keyes 1973, Kimura and Hasegawa 2010, Marx et al. 2016, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Marx et al. 2017, Mchedlidze 1984, McKenna and Bell 1997, Miller 1923, Mitchell 1989, Otsuka and Ota 2008, Pilleri 1990, Pilleri and Pilleri 1989, Riabinin 1934, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Sanders and Barnes 2002, Simpson 1945, Steeman 2007, Steeman 2010, Tanaka et al. 2018, Tarasenko and Lopatin 2012, Tarasenko and Lopatin 2012, Uhen et al. 2008, Vidal 1991, Whitmore 1984, Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008, Whitmore and Sanders 1977 and Yoshida et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Balaenomorpha, Cetotheriopsidae, Cetotheriopsis, Cetotherium incertum, Cetotherium klinderi, Cetotherium pusillum, Eomysticetidae, Eomysticetoidea, Halicetus, Jobancetus, Megapteropsis, Piscocetus, Plicogulae, Sitsqwayk, Tlaxcallicetus, Whakakai
Subtaxa: Adicetus Cephalotropis Cetotheriinae Ciuciulea Cophocetus Eucetotherium Herentalia Herpetocetinae Heterocetus Hibacetus Imerocetus Joumocetus Metopocetus Neobalaeninae Palaeobalaena Piscobalaena Taikicetus Titanocetus Tiucetus Tranatocetus Vampalus
Type: Cetotherium
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (5), Azerbaijan (1), Chile (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), New Zealand (2), South Africa (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: California, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Belgium (7), Italy (5), Japan (10), the Netherlands (1), United States (28: California, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), Japan (1), United States (2: California)
• Neogene of South Africa (1), Ukraine (2)
• Miocene of Angola (1), Argentina (2), Australia (6), Austria (1), Bangladesh (1), Belgium (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Chile (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Georgia (2), Germany (3), Italy (3), Japan (17), Mexico (2), Moldova (2), the Netherlands (6), Peru (11), Portugal (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (11), San Marino (1), Spain (4), Ukraine (11), United States (34: California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Mexico (4)
Total: 215 collections including 249 occurrences