Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Full reference: M. Bisconti, D. K. Munsterman, R. H. B. Fraaije, M. E. J. Bosselaers, and K. Post. 2020. A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera. PeerJ 8:e8315
Belongs to Archaebalaenoptera according to M. Bisconti et al. 2022
See also Bisconti et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Archaebalaenoptera castriarquati, Archaebalaenoptera eusebioi
Type specimen: MAB002286 , a partial skull. Its type locality is Hoogdonk Sandpit, which is in a Tortonian marine sandstone in the Diessen Formation of the Netherlands.
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Hoogdonk Sandpit
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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