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 J. H. Geisler et al. 2011
See also Bianucci and Landini 2007, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Rice 2009, Sanders and Barnes 2002 and Steeman 2007
Sister taxa: Balaenomorpha, Cetotheriidae, Cetotheriopsidae, Cetotheriopsis, Cetotherium incertum, Cetotherium klinderi, Cetotherium pusillum, Eomysticetidae, Halicetus, Jobancetus, Megapteropsis, Piscocetus, Plicogulae, Sitsqwayk, Tlaxcallicetus, Whakakai
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Eomysticetoidea in the database