Full reference: G. S. Miller. 1923. The telescoping of the cetacean skull. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 76(5):1-70
Parent taxon: Physeteroidea according to A. Collareta et al. 2017
See also Aguirre-Fernández and Fordyce 2014, Barnes et al. 1985, Benites-Palomino et al. 2020, Benites-Palomino et al. 2021, Benites-Palomino et al. 2023, Berta 2017, Bianucci et al. 2011, Bianucci and Landini 1999, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bloodworth and Odell 2008, Canto et al. 2010, Collareta et al. 2019, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler et al. 2011, Gingerich 2005, Kasuya 1973, Kellogg 1928, Lambert 2008, Lambert et al. 2010, Marx et al. 2016, Miller 1923, Muizon 1990, Rice 1998, Rice 2002, Rice 2009, Uhen et al. 2008, Velez-Juarbe et al. 2015, Velez-Juarbe et al. 2016, Vidal 1991 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: Acrophyseter, Albicetus, Angelocetus, Brygmophyseter, Cozzuoliphyseter, Eudelphis, Ferecetotherium, Hoplocetus, Livyatan, Miophyseter, Physeterida, Physeteridae, Preaulophyseter, Rhaphicetus, Scaldicetus, Zygophyseter
Subtaxa: Aprixokogia Kogiinae Scaphokogiinae
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), India (2), Japan (1), Mexico (2), New Caledonia (7), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), South Africa (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Maine, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), United States (3: Florida, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (3: Florida)
• Neogene of Madagascar (1), South Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Chile (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Malta (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (3), Peru (6), United States (1: California)
Total: 55 collections including 64 occurrences