Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Full reference: F. C. Whitmore and L. G. Barnes. 2008. The Herpetocetinae, a new subfamily of extinct baleen whales (Mammalia, Cetacea, Cetotheriidae). Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:141-180
Parent taxon: Cetotheriidae according to P. Goldin and D. Startsev 2017
See also Tarasenko 2014, Tarasenko and Lopatin 2012, Whitmore and Barnes 2008 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: Adicetus, Cephalotropis, Ciuciulea, Cophocetus, Eucetotherium, Herentalia, Herpetocetinae, Heterocetus, Hibacetus, Imerocetus, Joumocetus, Metopocetus, Neobalaeninae, Palaeobalaena, Piscobalaena, Taikicetus, Titanocetus, Tiucetus, Tranatocetus, Vampalus
Subtaxa: Brandtocetus Cetotherium Kurdalagonus Mithridatocetus Zygiocetus
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Azerbaijan (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Italy (4), United States (3: North Carolina, Virginia)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), France (1), Georgia (2), the Netherlands (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (9), Spain (4), Ukraine (10), United States (6: California, Maryland)
• Neogene of Ukraine (1)
Total: 47 collections including 52 occurrences