Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Full reference: L. Trevisan. 1942. Una nuova specie de Balaenula pliocenica. Palaeontogrphia Italica 40:1-13

Belongs to Balaenula according to F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce 2015

See also Bianucci 1996, Bisconti 2000, Bisconti 2003, Bisconti 2009, Field et al. 2017, Marx 2011 and Trevisan 1942

Sister taxa: Balaenula balaenopsis, Balaenula forsythmajori, Balaenula praediolensis

Type specimen: MSNUP I-12555, a partial skull. Its type locality is Portacomaro, which is in a Zanclean marine sandstone in the Sabbie d'Asti Formation of Italy.

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Portacomaro

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