Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Alternative combination: Balaena lartetii
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1882. Description des Ossements Fossiles des Environs D'Anvers Troisieme Partie: Cetaces Genera: Megaptera, Balenoptera, Burtinopsis & Erpetocetus. Annales du Musee Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 7:1-90
Belongs to Balaena according to E. L. Trouessart 1904
See also Trouessart 1898 and Van Beneden 1882
Sister taxa: Balaena arcuata, Balaena balsami, Balaena dubusi, Balaena macrocephalus, Balaena meneghinii, Balaena molassica, Balaena montalionis, Balaena mysticetus, Balaena pampaea, Balaena ricei, Balaena tannenbergii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Landes, which is in a Neogene marine horizon in France
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Landes
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