Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Alternative spelling: Balaenopterini
Synonym: Physalina Gray 1864
Full reference: W. H. Flower. 1865. Notes on the skeletons of whales in the principal museums of Holland and Belgium, with descriptions of two species apparently new to Science. 1864:384-420
Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to J. E. Gray 1864
See also Barnes et al. 1985, Bergqvist et al. 1999, Bisconti 2008, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Brandt 1874, Flower 1865, Flower 1867, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fraser and Purves 1960, Gill 1871, Gray 1868, Gray 1870, Gray 1871, Hay 1930, Lydekker 1887, McKenna and Bell 1997, Miller 1923, Rice 1998, Sanders and Barnes 2002, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Vidal 1991 and Winge 1921
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, Cetotheriophanes, Delphinus brachyspondylus, Diunatans, Eobalaenoptera, Eschrichtiinae, Fragilicetus, Hadrosaurus tripos, Incakujira, Marzanoptera, Megaptera, Megaptera affinis, Megapterinae, Megapteropsis robusta, Miobalaenoptera, Nehalaennia, Notiocetus, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae, Protororqualus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Santa Rosalia, Pliocene (Pliocene of Mexico)