Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Synonym: Zeuglodontinae Slijper 1936
Full reference: G. S. Miller. 1923. The telescoping of the cetacean skull. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 76(5):1-70
Parent taxon: Basilosauridae according to G. A. A. El-kheir et al. 2013
See also Barnes et al. 1985, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Fordyce 2006, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Gao and Ni 2015, Mahdy et al. 2019, McKenna and Bell 1997, McLeod and Barnes 2008, Slijper 1936, Uhen 2002, Uhen 2009, Uhen 2013, Uhen 1998, Uhen 2004, Uhen 2008 and van Vliet 2004
Sister taxa: Ancalecetus, Balaenoptera juddi, Basilosaurus, Basiloterus, Chrysocetus, Cynthiacetus, Dorudon, Dorudontinae, Masracetus, Ocucajea, Pachycetinae, Pachycetus humilis, Perucetus, Pontogeneus, Pontogeneus brachyspondylus, Saghacetus, Stromeriinae, Stromerius, Sulaimanitherium, Supayacetus, Tutcetus, Zygorhiza
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Opuha River (Eocene to Eocene of New Zealand)