Family Monodontidae Gray 1821 (toothed whale)
PaleoDB taxon number: 42963
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Delphinoidea according to H. Ichishima et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Albireonidae, Delphinidae, Eurhinodelphis pacificus, Odobenocetopsidae, Palaeophocaena, Phocoenidae, Prionodelphis, Protodelphinus, Sinanodelphis
Subtaxa: Bohaskaia, Casatia, Delphinapterinae, Delphinapterus, Denebola, Haborodelphis, Monodon, Monodontinae
Ecology: scansorial piscivore