Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Full reference: M. Bisconti. 2007. Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic relationships of the rorqual-like mysticete from the Pliocene of Mount Pulgnasco, northern Italy (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Palaeontolographica Italica 91:85-108
Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to M. Bisconti and M. E. J. Bosselaers 2020
See also Berta 2017, Bisconti 2007, Bisconti and Francou 2014 and Marx et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Agaphelinae, Archaebalaenoptera, Balaena affinis, Balaena definata, Balaena emarginata, Balaena gibbosa, Balaenoptera, Balaenoptera borealina, Balaenoptera musculoides, Balaenoptera portisii, Balaenoptera rostratella, Balaenoptera sibbaldina, Balaenoptera taiwanica, Balaenopterinae, Cetotheriophanes, Delphinus brachyspondylus, Diunatans, Eobalaenoptera, Eschrichtiinae, Fragilicetus, Hadrosaurus tripos, Incakujira, Marzanoptera, Megaptera, Megaptera affinis, Megapterinae, Megapteropsis robusta, Miobalaenoptera, Nehalaennia, Notiocetus, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae
Subtaxa: Protororqualus cuvieri Protororqualus dyticus Protororqualus wilfriedneesi
Type: Balaena cuvierii
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Belgium (2 collections), Italy (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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