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Balaena ricei
Taxonomy
Balaena ricei was named by Westgate and Whitmore (2002). Its type specimen is USNM 22553, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rice's Pit, which is in a Zanclean shallow subtidal siltstone in the Yorktown Formation of Virginia.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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2002 | Balaena ricei Westgate and Whitmore p. 297 figs. Figs. 3-33 |
2008 | Balaena ricei Uhen et al. p. 618 |
2009 | Balaena ricei Bisconti p. 153 |
2011 | Balaena ricei Marx p. 83 figs. Figure 2 |
2012 | Balaena ricei Churchill et al. p. 20 |
2015 | Balaena ricei Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
2017 | Balaena ricei Field et al. figs. Table 1 |
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†Balaena ricei Westgate and Whitmore 2002
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available