Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae
Alternative combination: Balaenella brachyrynus
Full reference: M. Bisconti. 2005. Skull morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new diminutive balaenid from the lower Pliocene of Belgium. Palaeontology 48(4):793-816
Belongs to Balaenella according to P. Gol'din and M. E. Steeman 2015
See also Bisconti 2005, Bisconti 2009, Field et al. 2017, Lambert et al. 2026, Marx 2011 and Marx and Fordyce 2015
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NMB 42001, a skull. Its type locality is First Channel Dock, Kallo, which is in a Zanclean offshore shelf claystone in the Kattendijk Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at First Channel Dock, Kallo
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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