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Cetaceans
Temporal range: Early Eocene - Recent
A skull of Basilosaurus cetoides.
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Brisson, 1762

The list of extinct cetaceans features the extinct genera and species of the order Cetacea. The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants of land-living mammals, the even-toed ungulates. The earliest cetaceans were still hoofed-mammals. These early cetaceans became gradually better adapted for swimming than for walking on land, finally evolving into fully marine cetaceans.

This list currently includes only fossil genera and species. However, the Atlantic population of Gray Whales (Eschrichtius robustus) went extinct in the 18th century, and the Baiji (or Chinese River Dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer) was declared "functionally extinct" after an expedition in late 2006 failed to find any in the Yangtze River.

Suborder Archaeoceti

(Eocene)

Dorudon

(Late Eocene)

Basilosaurus cetoides reconstruction

(Early to Middle Eocene)

Ambulocetus skeleton in front and Pakicetus behind

(Eocene)

Rhodocetus kasrani reconstruction

(Eocene)

Suborder Mysticeti

(Oligocene)

Aetiocetus restoration

(Late Eocene)

(jr synonym Janjucetidae)

Janjucetus hunderi

(Late Oligocene)

Clade Chaeomysticeti

Superfamily Eomysticetoidea

(Oligocene to Miocene)

(Oligocene)

Superfamily Balaenoidea

Family Balaenidae

(Oligocene to Recent)

(Miocene to Recent)

Clade Thalassotherii

(Miocene to Pliocene)

(Oligocene to Recent)

(Miocene - Recent)

Classification follows Steeman, 2007.[5]

Cetotherium restoration

(Miocene to Pliocene)

(Miocene to Recent)

(Miocene)

Eobalaenoptera skeleton

Suborder Odontoceti

Basal forms

(Late Oligocene)

(Oligocene to Early Miocene)

(Late Oligocene)

(Oligocene)

Superfamily Delphinoidea

(Miocene to Pliocene)

Etruridelphis giulii

(Oligocene to Recent)

(Late Oligocene - Middle Miocene)

Kentriodon reconstruction

(Miocene to Pliocene)

(Pliocene)

Odobenocetops reconstruction

(Miocene to Recent)

Family incertae sedis

Superfamily Inioidea

Family Iniidae

(Middle Miocene to Recent)

Superfamily Lipotoidea

Family Lipotidae

(Miocene to Recent)

Superfamily Physeteroidea

Family Kogiidae

(Miocene to recent)

Family incertae sedis

Superfamily Platanistoidea

(Early to Middle Miocene)

(Late Oligocene to Miocene)

(Miocene to Recent)

(Oligocene to Miocene)

(Early to Late Miocene)

(Oligocene to Pliocene)

(Oligocene)

Superfamily Ziphioidea

(Miocene)

(Mid Miocene to Pliocene)

Macrodelphinus & Eurhinodelphis

Family Ziphiidae

(Miocene to Recent)

Classification after Bianucci et al. 2013[15]

See also

References

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