After O'Leary, 1998, and McKenna & Bell, 1997
<==o “Paraxonia” (sorkkaeläintensukuiset ungulaatit; artiodactyl-like ungulates) |-- Artiodactyla (sorkkaeläimet) `--o CETE sensu lato |?- †Olsenia |-- †Andrewsarchus mongoliensis `--+--o †Triisodontidae [Arctocyonidae: Triisodontinae] | |-- †Goniacodon | `--+-- †Eoconodon | `--+-- †Triisodon | `-- †Stelocyon `--+?- †Microclaenodon `--o CETE sensu stricto |-- †Mesonychia Van Valen, 1966 [Acreodi] (mesonykit; mesonychians) `-- Cetacea (valaat; whales)
Reference(s):
- Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648.
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698. - Gazin, C. L., 1976: Mammalian faunal zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene.
–Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology: No. 26, pp. iv-25 - McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631 - O'Leary, M. A., 1998: Phylogenetic and morphometric reassessment of the dental evidence for a mesonychian and cetacean clade.
in Thewissen, J. G. M. (ed.), 1998: The Emergency of Whales.
–Plenum Press, New York, 1998. - O'Leary, M. A., 1998: Morphology of the humerus of Hapalodectes (Mammalia, Mesonychia). –American Museum Novitates: #3242, November 5, pp. 1-6.
- O'Leary, M. A., Lucas, S. G. & Williamson, T. E., 2000: A new specimen of Ankalagon (Mammalia), Mesonychia) and evidence of sexual dimorphism in mesonychians.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 20, #2, pp. 387-393