Llanocetidae
| Llanocetidae Temporal range: Late Eocene,
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| Skull of Llanocetus at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Parvorder: | Mysticeti |
| Family: | †Llanocetidae Mitchell, 1989 |
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Llanocetidae is an extinct family of ancient toothed baleen whales from the Eocene. It was named by American paleontologist Edward Mitchell in 1989 after describing the Antarctic Llanocetus,[1] but a 2018 study by paleontologists Ewan Fordyce and Felix Marx included the Peruvian Mystacodon and an undescribed New Zealand specimen OU GS10897.[2]
References
- ^ Mitchell, E. D. (1989). "A new cetacean from the Late Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula". Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 46: 2219–2235. doi:10.1139/f89-273.
- ^ Fordyce, R. E.; Marx, F. G. (2018). "Gigantism precedes filter feeding in baleen whale evolution". Current Biology. 28 (10): 1670–1676. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.027. PMID 29754903.