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Balaena montalionis

Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Taxonomy
Balaena montalionis was named by Capellini (1904). Its type specimen is MSNT MC CF31 (12357), a partial skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Casina, which is in a Piacenzian marine horizon in Italy.

It was recombined as Balaenula montalionis by Pilleri (1987).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1904Balaena montalionis Capellini pp. 1-11 figs. Plate 1
1904Balaena montalionis Trouessart p. 787
1987Balaenula montalionis Pilleri p. 69
1993Balaena montalionis McLeod et al. p. 55
1995Balaena montalionis Bisconti
1996Balaena montalionis Bianucci p. 66
2000Balaena montalionis Bisconti p. 39
2003Balaena montalionis Bisconti p. 23
2009Balaena montalionis Bisconti p. 153
2015Balaena montalionis Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2
2017Balaena montalionis Field et al. figs. Table 1

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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
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Euungulata
Artiodactylamorpha
Artiodactyla()
Whippomorpha
orderCetacea
Pelagiceti
Neoceti
suborderMysticeti
Chaeomysticeti()
Balaenomorpha
superfamilyBalaenoidea
familyBalaenidae()
genusBalaena
speciesmontalionis

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 montalionis Capellini 1904
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available