Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Alternative spelling: Dorudontidae
Full reference: G. S. Miller. 1923. The telescoping of the cetacean skull. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 76(5):1-70
Parent taxon: Basilosauridae according to P. D. Gingerich et al. 2022
See also Barnes et al. 1985, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Fordyce 1982, Fordyce 2006, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Gao and Ni 2015, Hay 1930, Hooker 1986, Kellogg 1928, Kellogg 1936, Keyes 1973, Kohler and Fordyce 1997, Mahdy et al. 2019, McKenna and Bell 1997, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Miller 1923, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Simpson 1945, Slijper 1936, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Uhen 1996, Uhen 2002, Uhen 2009, Uhen 2013, Uhen 1998, Uhen 2004, Uhen 2008, Uhen and Gingerich 2001, Uhen et al. 2011, van Vliet 2004 and Whitmore and Sanders 1977
Sister taxa: Ancalecetus, Balaenoptera juddi, Basilosaurinae, Basilosaurus, Basiloterus, Chrysocetus, Cynthiacetus, Dorudon, Masracetus, Ocucajea, Pachycetinae, Perucetus, Pontogeneus, Pontogeneus brachyspondylus, Saghacetus, Stromeriinae, Stromerius, Sulaimanitherium, Supayacetus, Tutcetus, Zygorhiza
Subtaxa: Zeuglodon wanklyni
Type: Dorudon
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), Germany (1), New Zealand (2), Senegal (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence