Mammalia - Cetacea - Phocoenidae
Alternative spellings: Phocaenae, Phocaeninae, Phocininae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1825. An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe. Annals of Philosophy, new series 10:337-344
Parent taxon: Phocoenidae according to R. Foekens 2008
See also Abel 1905, Barnes 1984, Barnes 1985, Barnes et al. 1985, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Brandt 1874, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Kasuya 1973, McKenna and Bell 1997, Vidal 1991, Weber 1928 and Winge 1921
Sister taxa: Archaeophocaena, Australithax, Brabocetus, Haborophocoena, Lomacetus, Loxolithax, Miophocaena, Neophocaena, Numataphocoena, Phocoena, Phocoenoides, Phocoenoidinae, Piscolithax, Pterophocaena, Salumiphocaena, Semirostrum, Septemtriocetus
Subtaxa: Leucodelphini
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution: found only at Santa Rosalia, Pliocene (Pliocene of Mexico)