Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Full reference: A. Desmoulins. 1822. Baleine. Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle 155-165

Belongs to Balaena according to E. L. Trouessart 1904

See also Boitard 1844, Desmoulins 1822 and Trouessart 1898

Sister taxa: Balaena arcuata, Balaena balsami, Balaena dubusi, Balaena larteti, Balaena meneghinii, Balaena molassica, Balaena montalionis, Balaena mysticetus, Balaena pampaea, Balaena ricei, Balaena tannenbergii

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sos, which is in a Langhian coastal sandstone in France

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sos

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