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Balaenula
Taxonomy
Balaenula was named by Van Beneden (1872). It was considered monophyletic by Churchill et al. (2012).
It was synonymized subjectively with Balaena by Lydekker (1887).
It was assigned to Balaeninae by Hay (1930); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Balaenidae by Van Beneden (1872), Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Barnes (1977), Pilleri (1987), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Bisconti (2003), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Bisconti (2009), Churchill et al. (2012), Manganelli and Benocci (2014), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Balaena by Lydekker (1887).
It was assigned to Balaeninae by Hay (1930); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Balaenidae by Van Beneden (1872), Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Barnes (1977), Pilleri (1987), Carroll (1988), McKenna and Bell (1997), Bisconti (2003), Whitmore and Kaltenbach (2008), Uhen et al. (2008), Bisconti (2009), Churchill et al. (2012), Manganelli and Benocci (2014), Marx and Fordyce (2015), Boessenecker and Fordyce (2015), Marx et al. (2016) and Berta (2017).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1872 | Balaenula Van Beneden p. 11 |
| 1904 | Balaenula Palmer p. 132 |
| 1928 | Balaenula Kellogg p. 35 figs. Table 1 |
| 1930 | Balaenula Hay p. 578 |
| 1945 | Balaenula Simpson p. 105 |
| 1961 | Balaenula praediolensis Cuscani Politi p. 18 |
| 1977 | Balaenula Barnes p. 331 |
| 1987 | Balaenula Pilleri p. 77 |
| 1988 | Balaenula Carroll |
| 1997 | Balaenula McKenna and Bell p. 378 |
| 2002 | Balaenula Sepkoski |
| 2003 | Balaenula Bisconti p. 27 |
| 2008 | Balaenula Uhen et al. p. 618 |
| 2008 | Balaenula Whitmore and Kaltenbach p. 253 |
| 2009 | Balaenula Bisconti p. 153 |
| 2012 | Balaenula Churchill et al. p. 19 |
| 2014 | Balaenula Manganelli and Benocci p. 108 |
| 2015 | Balaenula Boessenecker and Fordyce figs. Table 1 |
| 2015 | Balaenula Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2016 | Balaenula Marx et al. p. 108 |
| 2017 | Balaenula Berta p. 167 |
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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. †Balaenula Van Beneden 1872
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†Balaenula astensis Trevisan 1942
†Balaenula balaenopsis Van Beneden 1872
†Balaenula forsythmajori Pilleri 1987
Invalid names: Balaenula praediolensis Cuscani Politi 1961 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available