{{short description|Subfamily of mammals}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Temporal range|41|33.9}} Middle Eocene – Late Eocene | image = Basilosaurus skeleton.jpg | image_upright = 1.2 | image_caption = ''Basilosaurus'' skeleton | taxon = Basilosaurinae | authority = Miller, 1923 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Basilosaurus'' * ''Basiloterus'' }}
'''Basilosaurinae''' is a subfamily of cetaceans archaeocetes containing two genera: ''Basilosaurus'' and ''Basiloterus''.<ref name="Paleodb-42936">{{Paleodb|42936|Basilosauridae}}. Retrieved July 2013.</ref> They were characterized by elongated distal thoracic vertebrae, lumbar, and proximal sacrococcygeal. All known members of the subfamily are larger than their relatives of the Dorudontinae subfamily except ''Cynthiacetus''.<ref name =EMM>{{Harvnb|Uhen|2008}}</ref>
== Classification == * '''Subfamily Basilosaurinae''' ** Genus ''Basilosaurus'' *** ''Basilosaurus cetoides'' *** ''Basilosaurus isis'' ** Genus ''Basiloterus'' *** ''Basiloterus hussaini''
== Notes == {{Reflist}}
==References== {{Refbegin}} * {{Cite book | last1 = Uhen | first1 = Mark D. | chapter = Basilosaurids | pages = 91–4 | editor1-last = Perrin | editor1-first = William F. | editor2-last = Wursig | editor2-first = Bernd | editor3-last = Thewissen | editor3-first= J.G.M. | title = Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals | edition = 2 | year = 2008 | publisher = Academic Press | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2rkHQpToi9sC&pg=PA93 | isbn = 978-0-12-373553-9 }}<!-- {{Harvnb|Uhen|2008}} --> * {{Cite journal | last = Uhen | first = Mark D. | title = A review of North American Basilosauridae | year = 2013 | journal = Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin | volume = 31 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–45 }}<!-- {{Harvnb|Uhen|2013}} --> {{Refend}}
{{Archaeoceti}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q4867470}}
Category:Basilosauridae Category:Eocene first appearances Category:Eocene extinctions
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