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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	42973	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42973

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Cetotheriidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Cetacea	Brisson 1762
-	Pelagiceti	Uhen 2008
-	Neoceti	Fordyce and de Muizon 2001
suborder	Mysticeti	Cope 1891
-	Chaeomysticeti
family	Cetotheriidae	Brandt 1872

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cetotheriidae	subfamily	belongs to Balaenopteridae	stated without evidence	Brandt, 1873
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Miller, 1923
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticete	stated without evidence	Hay, 1930
Cetotheriidae	subfamily	belongs to Balaenopteridae	stated without evidence	Riabinin, 1934
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Simpson, 1945
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	implied	Carroll, 1988
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Balaenopteroidea	stated without evidence	Mitchell, 1989
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Pilleri and Pilleri, 1989
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Chaeomysticeti	stated without evidence	Rice, 1998
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Fordyce and de Muizon, 2001
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Balaenopteroidea	stated without evidence	Sanders and Barnes, 2002
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Rice, 2002
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Balaenomorpha	stated without evidence	Geisler and Sanders, 2003
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Fordyce, 2003
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Balaenopteroidea	stated without evidence	Gingerich, 2005
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Bouetel and Muizon, 2006
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Cetotherioidea	stated without evidence	Steeman, 2007
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Eomysticetoidea	stated without evidence	Bianucci and Landini, 2007
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Otsuka and Ota, 2008
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Cetotherioidea	stated without evidence	Steeman, 2010
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Canto et al., 2010
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Cetotherioidea	stated without evidence	Tarasenko and Lopatin, 2012
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Thalassotherii	stated without evidence	Bisconti et al., 2013
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Chaeomysticeti	stated without evidence	El Adli et al., 2014
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Goldin et al., 2014
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Thalassotherii	stated with evidence	Bisconti, 2014
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Cetotherioidea	stated with evidence	Gol'din and Steeman, 2015
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Plicogulae	stated with evidence	Marx and Fordyce, 2015
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Cetotherioidea	stated with evidence	Goldin and Startsev, 2017
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Chaeomysticeti	stated with evidence	Marx et al., 2017
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Plicogulae	stated with evidence	Buono et al., 2017
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Thalassotherii	stated without evidence	Berta, 2017
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Cetotherioidea	stated without evidence	Gol'din, 2018
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Mysticeti	stated without evidence	Tanaka et al., 2018
Cetotheriidae	family	belongs to Chaeomysticeti	stated with evidence	Marx et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (6.9%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.1 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

marine (based on Mysticeti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

carnivore, suspension feeder (based on Mysticeti)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Cetacea)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Mysticeti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. F. Brandt. 1872. Uber eine neue Classification der Bartenwale (Balaenoidea) mit Berucksichtigung der untergegangenen Gattungen derselben. Bulletin d L'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 26:113-130

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cetotheriinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		48	20.4 Ma Miocene	1.81 Ma Pleistocene
Herpetocetinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		63	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Neobalaeninae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	Pygmy Right Whale	18	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cephalotropis ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Ciuciulea ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	13.8 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Cophocetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	20.4 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Eucetotherium ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	13.8 Ma Miocene	12.7 Ma Miocene
Herentalia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Heterocetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	20.4 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Hibacetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Imerocetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Joumocetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Metopocetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	16.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Palaeobalaena ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	16.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Piscobalaena ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	13.8 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Titanocetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Tiucetus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	13.8 Ma Miocene	13.8 Ma Miocene
Tranatocetus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Vampalus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1872	Cetotheriinae Brandt p. 116
1873	Cetotheriinae Brandt p. 26
1874	Cetotherinae Brandt p. I
1923	Cetotheriidae Miller p. 40
1928	Cetotheriidae Kellogg p. 35 figs. Table 1
1930	Cetotheriidae Hay p. 571
1934	Cetotheriinae Riabinin p. 4
1945	Cetotheriidae Simpson p. 104
1973	Cetotheriidae Keyes p. 390
1977	Cetotheriidae Whitmore and Sanders p. 305
1984	Cetotheriidae Mchedlidze p. 5
1984	Cetotheriidae Whitmore p. 230
1985	Cetotheriidae Barnes et al. p. 26
1988	Cetotheriidae Carroll
1989	Cetotheriidae Mitchell p. 2232
1989	Cetotheriidae Pilleri and Pilleri
1990	Cetotheriidae Pilleri p. 58
1991	Cetotheriidae Vidal p. 6
1993	Cetotheriidae Benton p. 762
1994	Cetotheriidae Fordyce and Barnes p. 428 figs. Table 1
1995	Cetotheriidae Fordyce et al. p. 379
1996	Cetotheriidae Cozzuol p. 324
1997	Cetotheriidae McKenna and Bell p. 375
1998	Cetotheriidae Rice
2001	Cetotheriidae Fordyce and de Muizon p. 176
2002	Cetotheriidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1
2002	Cetotheriidae Sanders and Barnes p. 353
2003	Cetotheriidae Fordyce p. 156 figs. Figure 9.1

Year	Name and Author
2003	Cetotheriidae Geisler and Sanders p. 27
2003	Cetotheriidae Yoshida et al. p. 2
2005	Cetotheriidae Gingerich p. 237 figs. Table 15.1
2006	Cetotheriidae Bouetel and Muizon p. 323
2007	Cetotheriidae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1
2007	Cetotheriidae Steeman p. 880
2008	Cetotheriidae Otsuka and Ota p. 12
2008	Cetotheriidae Uhen et al. p. 612
2008	Cetotheriidae Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 242
2010	Cetotheriidae Canto et al. p. 22
2010	Cetotheriidae Kimura and Hasegawa p. 578
2010	Cetotheriidae Steeman p. 74
2012	Cetotheriidae Tarasenko and Lopatin p. 532
2013	Cetotheriidae Bisconti et al. p. 98
2014	Cetotheriidae Bisconti
2014	Cetotheriidae El Adli et al. p. 403
2014	Cetotheriidae Goldin et al. p. 797
2015	Cetotheriidae Gol'din and Steeman p. 12
2015	Cetotheriidae Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2016	Cetotheriidae Marx et al. p. 22 figs. Figure 10
2017	Cetotheriidae Berta p. 168
2017	Cetotheriidae Buono et al. p. 32 figs. Fig. 12
2017	Cetotheriidae Goldin and Startsev figs. Fig. 10
2017	Cetotheriidae Marx et al. p. 2
2018	Cetotheriidae Gol'din p. 6
2018	Cetotheriidae Tanaka et al. p. 297
2019	Cetotheriidae Marx et al. p. 4

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Brandt J. F. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's, Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20 1, 1-372

Brandt J. F. Ergänzungen zu den Fossilen Cetaceen Europa's, Mémoires de L'Academie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, VIIE Série 21 6, 1-54

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Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074

Riabinin A. N. (1934) New contributions to the osteology of Cetotherium mayeri Brandt, from the Upper Sarmatian of the North Caucasus, Transactions of the United Geological and Prospecting Service of USSR 350, 1-15

Simpson G. G. (1945) The principles of classification and a classification of mammals, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 85, 1-350

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