Alternative spelling: Balaenoidae
Full reference: W. H. Flower. 1865. Notes on the skeletons of whales in the principal museums of Holland and Belgium, with descriptions of two species apparently new to Science. 1864:384-420
Parent taxon: Balaenomorpha according to M. Bisconti et al. 2017
See also Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bisconti 2003, Bisconti 2008, Bisconti 2012, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gill 1873, Gingerich 2005, Gray 1868, Hay 1930, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mitchell 1989, Rice 2009, Sanders and Barnes 2002, Steeman 2007 and Steeman 2010
Sister taxa: Persufflatius, Thalassotherii, Thinocetus
Subtaxa: Balaenidae
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-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 Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), Chile (1), Japan (1), South Africa (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)
• Neogene of France (1), South Pacific (1)
Total: 232 collections including 271 occurrences