Balaenula Van Beneden 1872 (right whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

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 F. G. Marx et al. 2016

See also Barnes 1977, Berta 2017, Bisconti 2003, Bisconti 2009, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Carroll 1988, Churchill et al. 2012, Hay 1930, Kellogg 1928, Lydekker 1887, Manganelli and Benocci 2014, Marx and Fordyce 2015, McKenna and Bell 1997, Palmer 1904, Pilleri 1987, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Uhen et al. 2008, Van Beneden 1872 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Balaenula astensis Balaenula balaenopsis Balaenula forsythmajori Balaenula praediolensis

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Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), the Netherlands (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Blancan of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Italy (4), Japan (3), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1)

• Miocene of France (1), the Netherlands (2), United States (2: California)

Total: 22 collections including 24 occurrences

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