Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Alternative spelling: Balaena (Balaenotus)
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1872. Les Baleines fossiles d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts 34:6-23
Parent taxon: Balaenidae according to D. J. Field et al. 2017
See also Bisconti 2003, Carroll 1988, Cioppi 2014, Kellogg 1928, Lydekker 1887, McKenna and Bell 1997, Newton 1891, Palmer 1904, Pilleri 1987, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Uhen et al. 2008 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Balaenotus insignis Balaenotus lawleyi Balaenotus orcianensis
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Italy (6), United States (1: Virginia)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
Total: 12 collections including 16 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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