Category:Squalodontidae

Articles relating to the Squalodontidae (shark-toothed dolphins), an extinct family of large toothed whales who had long narrow jaws. Squalodontids are known from all continents except Antarctica, from the Oligocene to the Neogene. They had a maximal diversity and global distribution during the Late Oligocene and Early to Middle Miocene (28 to 15 mya). With their cosmopolitan Miocene distribution and heterodont dentition, squalodontids are the most common and basal platanistoids.