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Plesiobalaenoptera
Taxonomy
Plesiobalaenoptera was named by Bisconti (2010).
It was assigned to by Marx and Fordyce (2015); to Balaenopteridae by Bisconti (2010), Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015) and Marx et al. (2016); and to Eschrichtiidae by Berta (2017).
It was assigned to by Marx and Fordyce (2015); to Balaenopteridae by Bisconti (2010), Gol'din and Steeman (2015), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015) and Marx et al. (2016); and to Eschrichtiidae by Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2010 | Plesiobalaenoptera Bisconti p. 943 figs. Fig. 1-10 |
| 2015 | Plesiobalaenoptera Boessenecker and Fordyce figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Plesiobalaenoptera Gol'din and Steeman p. 13 figs. Figure 10 |
| 2015 | Plesiobalaenoptera Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2016 | Plesiobalaenoptera Marx et al. p. 114 |
| 2017 | Plesiobalaenoptera Berta p. 168 |
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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.
G. †Plesiobalaenoptera Bisconti 2010
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†Plesiobalaenoptera quarantellii Bisconti 2010
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Uhen 2004, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Zanclean or 11.60800 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene - Pliocene | South Africa | P. sp. (22223) | |
| Tortonian | Italy | P. quarantellii (78437) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | South Africa | P. sp. (22219) | |
| Zanclean | South Africa (Cape) | P. sp. (176419) | |
| Zanclean | South Africa | P. sp. (220292) |