Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Full reference: M. Bisconti and M. Bosselaers. 2016. Fragilicetus velponi: a new mysticete genus and species and its implications for the origin of Balaenopteridae (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:450-474
Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to R. Govender and F. G. Marx 2023
See also Berta 2017, Bisconti and Bosselaers 2016 and Govender 2019
Sister taxa: Agaphelinae, Archaebalaenoptera, Balaena affinis, Balaena definata, Balaena emarginata, Balaena gibbosa, Balaenoptera, Balaenoptera borealina, Balaenoptera musculoides, Balaenoptera portisii, Balaenoptera rostratella, Balaenoptera sibbaldina, Balaenoptera taiwanica, Balaenopterinae, Cetotheriophanes, Delphinus brachyspondylus, Diunatans, Eobalaenoptera, Eschrichtiinae, Hadrosaurus tripos, Incakujira, Marzanoptera, Megaptera, Megaptera affinis, Megapterinae, Megapteropsis robusta, Miobalaenoptera, Nehalaennia, Notiocetus, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae, Protororqualus
Subtaxa: Fragilicetus velponi
Type: Fragilicetus velponi
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1 collection), South Africa (5)
• Neogene of South Africa (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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