Balaenotus orcianensis Pilleri 1987 (right whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Full reference: G. Pilleri. 1987. The Cetacea of the Italian Pliocene 1-160

Belongs to Balaenotus according to E. Cioppi 2014

See also Bianucci and Landini 2005 and Pilleri 1987

Sister taxa: Balaenotus insignis, Balaenotus lawleyi

Type specimen: IGF 1647 V, an other (fragment of right periotic). Its type locality is Orciano Pisano, which is in a Piacenzian open shallow subtidal mudstone in Italy.

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Orciano Pisano

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