Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Full reference: Y. Tanaka and M. Watanabe. 2019. An early and new member of Balaenopteridae from the upper Miocene of Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
Belongs to Miobalaenoptera according to Y. Tanaka and M. Watanabe 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NFL 18, a partial skull (frontals, squamosals, pari- etals, vomer, pterygoid, basisphenoid, basioccipital, exoccipitals, right periotic and presternum). Its type locality is Ishikari-Numata Station, east, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in the Horokaoshirarika Formation of Japan.
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Japan (1 collection)
• Miocene of Japan (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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