Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Synonyms: Halibalaena Gray 1873, Hunterius Flower 1864, Macleayius Gray 1864
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1864. On the Cetacea which have been observed in the seas surrounding the British Islands. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1864:195-248
Parent taxon: Balaenidae according to M. Bisconti et al. 2017
See also Barnes 1977, Bergqvist et al. 1999, Bisconti 2003, Bisconti 2009, Boessenecker 2013, Boessenecker and Fordyce 2015, Bouetel and Muizon 2006, Brandt 1872, Brandt 1873, Churchill et al. 2012, Ekdale et al. 2011, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Field et al. 2017, Flower 1865, Flower 1867, Gill 1871, Gol'din and Steeman 2015, Gondar 1966, Govender and Marx 2023, Gray 1864, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Hershkovitz 1966, Kellogg 1928, Marx and Fordyce 2015, Marx et al. 2016, Mead and Brownell 2005, Miller 1923, Palmer 1904, Pilleri 1987, Scammon and Cope 1869, Scott 1873, Sepkoski 2002, Sherman 1952, Simpson 1945, Sorbini et al. 2014, Steeman 2007 and Tsai and Chang 2019
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Eubalaena australis Eubalaena glacialis Eubalaena ianitrix Eubalaena japonica Eubalaena shinshuensis
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Brazil (3), Canada (1: Labrador), Chile (1), Denmark (5), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Taiwan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Alaska, New Jersey)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Iceland (1), Italy (3), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Japan (1), United States (1: California)
• Neogene of South Pacific (1)
Total: 39 collections each including a single occurrence
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