Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Alternative combination: Balaenoptera bertae
Full reference: R. W. Boessenecker. 2013. A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans. Geodiversitas 35(4):815-939
Belongs to Marzanoptera according to M. Bisconti et al. 2021
See also Boessenecker 2013, Marx and Fordyce 2015 and Tanaka et al. 2023
Sister taxon: Marzanoptera tersillae
Type specimen: UCMP 219078, a partial skull (partial skull lacking the premaxillae, maxillae, nasals, jugals, tympanic bullae, and bodies of the petrosal). Its type locality is UCMP V99849, San Gregorio section, Half Moon Bay, which is in a Piacenzian coastal sandstone/siltstone in the Purisima Formation of California.
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Japan (1 collection), United States (2: California)
• Miocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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