†family Squalodontidae Brandt 1873 (toothed whale)
PaleoDB taxon number: 42939
Synonym: Mesoceti Dames 1894 (taxon 69706)
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372
Parent taxon: Platanistoidea according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Allodelphinidae, Aondelphis, Awamokoa, Dalpiazinidae, Platanidelphidi, Platanistidae, Prosqualodontidae, Squalodelphinidae, Urkudelphis, Waipatiidae
Subtaxa: Austrosqualodon, Eosqualodon, Pachyodon, Phoberodon, Portheodon, Prosqualodon hamiltoni, Squalodon, Squalodon andrewi, Squalodontinae, Tangaroasaurus, Zeuglodon vredense
Ecology: scansorial insectivore