Full reference: C. de Muizon. 1988. Les relations phylogenetiques des Delphinida (Cetacea, Mammalia). Annales de Paleontologie 74(4):159-227
Parent taxon: Delphinida according to O. Lambert et al. 2018
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Aguirre-Fernández et al. 2017, Berta 2017, Bianucci et al. 2011, Bianucci and Landini 2007, de Muizon 1988, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler et al. 2011, Gingerich 2005, Godfrey et al. 2021, Godfrey and Lambert 2023, Lambert et al. 2017, Lambert et al. 2021, Marx et al. 2016, Post et al. 2017, Pyenson and Hoch 2007, Pyenson et al. 2015, Rice 2009 and Valerio and Laurito 2012
Sister taxa: Anacharsis, Atocetus, Brevirostrodelphis, Cammackacetus, Delphinavus, Delphinoidea, Hadrodelphis, Herbeinodelphis, Kentriodontidae, Kentriodontoidea, Liolithax, Lipotidae, Lipotoidea, Macrokentriodon, Miminiacetus, Miodelphis, Monodontoidae, Pictodelphis, Pithanodelphis, Platylithax, Tagicetus, Westmorelandelphis
Subtaxa: Awadelphis Brujadelphis Iniidae Paninia Pontoporiidae
Ecology: aquatic carnivore