Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Full reference: J. W. Westgate and F. C. Whitmore. 2002. Balaena ricei, a new species of bowhead whale from the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Hampton, Virginia. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93:295-312

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

See also Bisconti 2009, Churchill et al. 2012, Field et al. 2017, Marx 2011, Uhen et al. 2008 and Westgate and Whitmore 2002

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

Type specimen: USNM 22553, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Rice's Pit, which is in a Zanclean shallow subtidal siltstone in the Yorktown Formation of Virginia.

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Rice's Pit

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