Incakujira anillodefuego Marx and Kohno 2016 (rorqual)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Full reference: F. G. Marx and N. Kohno. 2016. A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert. Royal Society Open Science 3(10):160542

Belongs to Incakujira according to F. G. Marx and N. Kohno 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GNHM Fs-098-12, a skeleton. Its type locality is Aguada de Lomas, which is in a Tortonian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Aguada de Lomas

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