†superfamily Balaenopteroidea Gray 1868

Mammalia - Cetacea

Parent taxon: Plicogulae according to M. R. Buono et al. 2017

See also Berta 2017, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bisconti and Bosselaers 2016, Deméré et al. 2005, Dooley et al. 2004, Fleming et al. 2022, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gingerich 2005, Gray 1868, Hampe and Ritsche 2011, Marx et al. 2016, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mitchell 1989, Rice 2009, Sanders and Barnes 2002, Solis-Añorve et al. 2021, Steeman 2007 and Steeman 2010

Sister taxa: Cetotherioidea, Isanacetus, Tranatocetidae

Subtaxa: Aglaocetus Amphicetus Diorocetus Eschrichtiidae Mauicetus Panbalaenopteroidea Physalidae Tiphyocetus Uranocetus

View classification

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Belgium (1 collection), Japan (6), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (3), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Sweden (1), Taiwan (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (20: Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Italy (2), Japan (3), the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), Mexico (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Belgium (6), Chile (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), Japan (5), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (3), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Peru (2), United States (12: California, Maryland, Virginia)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of Japan (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (4)

Total: 99 collections including 114 occurrences

Show more details