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Balaena dubusi

Osteichthyes - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Taxonomy
Probalaena dubusii was named by Van Beneden (1872). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium.

It was recombined as Balaena dubusi by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
B. acutorostrata, B. mysticus, B. mystietus, B. myusticetus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Probalaena dubusii Van Beneden p. 10
1874Probalaena dubusii Vanden Broeck p. 198
1898Balaena dubusi Trouessart p. 1089
1901Probalaena dubusii Abel p. 42
1904Balaena dubusi Trouessart p. 786

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
RankNameAuthor
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Euungulata
—Artiodactylamorpha
—Artiodactyla()
—Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
—Pelagiceti
—Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
—Chaeomysticeti()
familyBalaenidae()
genusBalaena
speciesdubusi()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Balaena dubusi Van Beneden 1872
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available