Mammalia - Cetacea - Kekenodontidae
Alternative spelling: Kekenodontinae
Full reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1989. A new cetacean from the late Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46(12):2219-2235
Parent taxon: Pelagiceti according to J. E. Corrie and R. E. Fordyce 2024
See also Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Clementz et al. 2014, Corrie and Fordyce 2022, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce 1992, Fordyce 2004, Fordyce 2006, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Hernández Cisneros et al. 2017, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mitchell 1989, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009 and Uhen 2018
Sister taxa: Basilosauridae, Metasqualodon harwoodi, Neoceti
Subtaxa: Kekenodon Squalodon gambierensis Tohoraonepu
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Australia (1 collection), Mexico (4), New Zealand (4)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence