Superfamily Balaenoidea Flower 1865 (whale)
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, Gray 1871, 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: none
Ecology: aquatic carnivore-suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Balaenoidea in the database