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Balaena larteti

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Taxonomy
Balaena lartetii was named by Van Beneden (1882). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Salles-Mios, which is in a Serravallian marine sandstone in the Sables des Landes Formation of France.

It was misspelled as Balaena larteti by Trouessart (1898); it was corrected as Balaena larteti by Van Beneden (1882) and Trouessart (1904).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Balaena larteti Van Beneden p. 22
1882Balaena lartetii Van Beneden p. 22
1898Balaena larteti Trouessart p. 1089
1904Balaena larteti Trouessart p. 787

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

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 larteti Van Beneden 1882
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available