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Mammalodontidae

Synonyms: Janjucetidae

Wikipedia Abstract

Mammalodontidae is a family of extinct whales known from the Oligocene of Australia and New Zealand. There are currently two genera is this family: Janjucetus and Mammalodon. After a new cladistic analysis by Fitzgerald (2010), Janjucetus was transferred into Mammalodontidae, thereby making Janjucetidae a junior synonym of Mammalodontidae. Analysing the jaw morphology of the toothed mysticetes, found eight mandibular characters unique to the members of Mammalodontidae:
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Genus

Janjucetus (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0