Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Full reference: M. Bosselaers and K. Post. 2010. A new fossil rorqual (Mammalia, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae) from the Early Pliocene of the North Sea, with a review of the rorqual species described by Owen and Van Beneden. Geodiversitas 32(2):331-363
Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Berta 2017, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Bosselaers and Post 2010, Govender 2019, Govender and Marx 2023 and Marx and Fordyce 2015
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, Eobalaenoptera, Eschrichtiinae, Fragilicetus, Hadrosaurus tripos, Incakujira, Marzanoptera, Megaptera, Megaptera affinis, Megapterinae, Megapteropsis robusta, Miobalaenoptera, Nehalaennia, Notiocetus, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae, Protororqualus
Subtaxa: Diunatans luctoretemergo
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1 collection), South Africa (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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