Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Alternative combinations: Balaenoptera capellinii, Cetotherium (Cetotheriophanes) capellinii, Plesiocetus capellinii
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372
Belongs to Cetotheriophanes according to T. A. Deméré et al. 2005
See also Brandt 1873, Brandt 1874, Cuscani Politi 1961, Deméré 1986, Trouessart 1898 and Trouessart 1904
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is San Lorenzo in Collina, which is in a Zanclean/Piacenzian shallow subtidal claystone in Italy
Distribution: found only at Orciano Pisano
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