†superfamily Basilosauroidea Mitchell 1989 (whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea

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: Archaeoceti according to G. A. A. El-kheir et al. 2013

See also Gingerich 2005, Mahdy et al. 2019, Mitchell 1989, Rice 1998 and Rice 2009

Sister taxon: Pontobasileus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Basilosauroidea in the database

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