Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Alternative combination: Probalaena dubusii
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
Belongs to Balaena according to E. L. Trouessart 1904
See also Abel 1901, Trouessart 1898, Van Beneden 1872 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: Balaena arcuata, Balaena balsami, Balaena larteti, Balaena macrocephalus, Balaena meneghinii, Balaena molassica, Balaena montalionis, Balaena mysticetus, Balaena pampaea, Balaena ricei, Balaena tannenbergii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Anvers
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