Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Full reference: M. P. Boitard. 1844. Balaeines fossiles. Dictionaire universel d'histoire naturelle 2:443-444

Belongs to Balaena according to E. L. Trouessart 1904

See also Boitard 1844 and Trouessart 1898

Sister taxa: Balaena balsami, Balaena dubusi, 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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