Mammalia - Cetacea - Llanocetidae
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: Mysticeti according to R. E. Fordyce and F. G. Marx 2018
See also Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Cozzuol 1996, Fitzgerald 2010, Fordyce 2003, Fordyce 2006, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fordyce and Roberts 2009, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mitchell 1989, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Sanders and Barnes 2002 and Steeman 2007
Sister taxa: Aetiocetidae, Aetiocetoidea, Amphitera, Aulocetus calaritanus, Aulocetus lovisati, Balaena cortesii, Balaena simpsoni, Borealodon, Burtinopsis, Cetotheriomorphus, Chaeomysticeti, Coronodonidae, Crenaticeti, Eschrichtioidea, Eschrichtius expansus, Eschrichtius leptocentrus, Eschrichtius pusillus, Horopeta, Kinetomenta, Maiabalaena, Mammalodontidae, Mauicetus brevicollis, Mesoteras, Mesoteras kerrianus, Metasqualodon, Mioceta, Mystacodontidae, Plesiocetus, Probalaena, Pterobalaenidae, Rhegnopsis, Siphonocetus, Squalodon serratus, Toipahautea, Tretulias, Tretulias buccatus, Ulias, Whakakai
Subtaxa: Llanocetus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (3 collections), New Zealand (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence