Basilosauridae is a family of extinct cetaceans. They lived during the middle to the early late Eocene and are known from all continents, including Antarctica.[1][2] They were probably the first fully aquatic cetaceans.[3][4] The group is noted to be a paraphyletic assemblage of stem group whales[5] from which the monophyletic Neoceti are derived.[6]
^ abcBasilosauridae in the Paleobiology Database
^Fostowicz-Frelik 2003
^Uhen 2002
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Basilosauridae is a family of extinct cetaceans. They lived during the middle to the early late Eocene and are known from all continents, including Antarctica...
near the start of the Oligocene (~34 Mya) when Neoceti diverged from Basilosauridae. This radiation event concurrently occurs with the breakup of Gondwana...
analysis on the placement of Basilosaurus. Two subfamilies exist in Basilosauridae: Basilosaurinae which includes Basilosaurus, and Dorudontinae. These...
Bianucci and colleagues subsequently added Perucetus to the family Basilosauridae. The immense size and bone density both make it impossible for Perucetus...
Zygorhiza kochii Basilosauridae in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved July 2013. Uhen, Mark D. (2013). "A review of North American Basilosauridae". Alabama...
mating. This role in mating is hypothesized to have possibly occurred in Basilosauridae, an extinct family of whales with well-defined femurs, lower legs and...
Remingtonocetidae (amphibious), Basilosauridae (aquatic), and Dorudontidae (aquatic, now a subfamily of Basilosauridae). The earliest cetaceans were thought...
Basilosaurus cetoides Basilosaurus isis Genus Basiloterus Basiloterus hussaini Basilosauridae in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved July 2013. Uhen 2008 Uhen, Mark...
The list of extinct cetaceans features the extinct genera and species of the order Cetacea. The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants...
have arisen from a common ancestor with ambulocetids. Together with Basilosauridae, the five families are classified under the suborder Archaeoceti. Cetaceans...
†Pakicetidae Family †Ambulocetidae Family †Remingtonocetidae Family †Basilosauridae Clade Neoceti Parvorder Mysticeti: baleen whales Superfamily Balaenoidea:...
According to the Bayesian tip-dating analysis conducted for Tutcetus, Basilosauridae was a paraphyletic clade that included both traditional basilosaurids...
only lead to some major changes of the internal relationships within Basilosauridae but have also called into question how diagnostic elongated vertebrae...
discovered include teeth and ribs from Nagornoye (initially referred to Basilosauridae indet.) and vertebrae from Kurenevka ("Eocetus" sp.). These new finds...
pachycetines as being more closely related to the clade Neoceti, rendering Basilosauridae paraphyletic as well. The elongation of the vertebrae in Antaecetus...
Family †Hapalodectidae Suborder Cetacea Infraorder †Archaeoceti Family †Basilosauridae Family †Protocetidae Family †Remingtonocetidae Infraorder Autoceta Family...
understood, with the original authors simply placing it within an unresolved Basilosauridae featuring it, Basilosaurus, Dorudon and Ocucajea. The paper however...
suggests that it represents a phylogenetic intermediate form between Basilosauridae and Neoceti. Kekenodon was considered a member of the basilosaurid subfamily...
undiagnostic to be referred to anything more specific than the family Basilosauridae. While this would have provided a more accessible basis for future referrals...
Uhen 2008 created a new clade, Pelagiceti, for the common ancestor of Basilosauridae and all of its descendants, including Neoceti, the living cetaceans...
True 1908, p. 78 Kellogg 1936, pp. 101–102 Kellogg 1936, pp. 174–175 Basilosauridae: Taxonomic history in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved September...
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