Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Full reference: A. C. Dooley, N. C. Fraser, and Z. Luo. 2004. The earliest known member of the rorqual-gray whale clade (Mammalia, Cetacea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(2):453-463
Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to A. Berta 2017
See also Deméré et al. 2005, Dooley et al. 2004, Hastings and Dooley 2017 and Uhen et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Archaebalaenoptera, Balaena affinis, Balaena definata, Balaena emarginata, Balaena gibbosa, Balaenoptera, Balaenoptera borealina, Balaenoptera musculoides, Balaenoptera portisii, Balaenoptera rostratella, Balaenoptera sibbaldina, Balaenoptera taiwanica, Balaenopterinae, Cetotheriophanes, Delphinus brachyspondylus, Diunatans, Eschrichtiinae, Fragilicetus, Hadrosaurus tripos, Incakujira, Marzanoptera, Megaptera, Megaptera affinis, Megapterinae, Megapteropsis robusta, Miobalaenoptera, Nehalaennia, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae, Protororqualus
Subtaxa: Eobalaenoptera harrisoni
Type: Eobalaenoptera harrisoni
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Carmel Church Quarry (Miocene of Virginia)
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