Mammalia - Cetacea - Eomysticetidae
Full reference: A. E. Sanders and L. G. Barnes. 2002. Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 3: Eomysticetidae, a new family of primitive mysticetes (Mammalia: Cetacea). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93:313-356
Parent taxon: Eomysticetidae according to R. W. Boessenecker and R. E. Fordyce 2017
See also Berta 2017, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Fordyce and Marx 2016, Fordyce and Marx 2018, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Hernández-Cisneros and Nava-Sánchez 2022, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Marx et al. 2016, Okazaki 2012, Sanders and Barnes 2002, Steeman 2007, Tsai and Kohno 2017 and Uhen et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Cochimicetus, Echericetus, Matapanui, Micromysticetus, Tokarahia, Waharoa, Yamatocetus
Subtaxa: Eomysticetus carolinensis Eomysticetus whitmorei
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (2: South Carolina collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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