Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Alternative combinations: Balaena (Balaenula) balaenopsis, Balaena balaenopsis
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1872. Les Baleines fossiles d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts 34:6-23
Belongs to Balaenula according to D. J. Field et al. 2017
See also Bianucci 1996, Bisconti 2003, Bisconti 2009, Flot 1895, Lydekker 1887, McLeod et al. 1993, Newton 1891, Pilleri 1987, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Uhen et al. 2008, Van Beneden 1872, Van Deinse 1935 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: Balaenula astensis, Balaenula forsythmajori, Balaenula praediolensis
Type specimen: IRSNB Ct.M.858a-b, 853d, 859, 860, 861, 862, 863, 865a-b, 867a-c, 868, 869a-b. Its type locality is Stuyvenberg, which is in a Zanclean/Piacenzian marine sandstone in Belgium.
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Netherlands (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Italy (1)
• Miocene of France (1), the Netherlands (2)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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