Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Balaenoidea according to M. Bisconti et al. 2023
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: none
Type: Balaena
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (2), Brazil (3), Canada (48: Labrador, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), Chile (1), Denmark (21), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (21), Italy (1), Japan (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (7), Taiwan (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: Alaska, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Carolina)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (1), New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (2), Belgium (9), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), Iceland (1), Italy (27), Japan (8), the Netherlands (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (7: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), Chile (1), Japan (1), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Neogene of France (1), South Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (4), Australia (4), Chile (2), France (2), Germany (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), the Netherlands (2), United States (6: California, Virginia)
Total: 232 collections including 271 occurrences