Balaenella
Balaenella Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Balaenidae |
Genus: | †Balaenella Bisconti, 2005 |
Species | |
†B. brachyrhynchus Bisconti, 2005 (type) |
Balaenella is an extinct genus of balaenid from the early Pliocene of the vicinity of Antwerp, Belgium. Its type species is Balaena brachyrhynchus.
Classification[]
A cladistic analysis of Balaenidae places Balaenella as the sister taxon of the bowhead whale in a clade separate from right whales.[1]
References[]
- ^ Bisconti, M. (2005). "Skull Morphology and Phylogenetic Relationships of a New Diminutive Balaenid from the Lower Pliocene of Belgium". Palaeontology 48 (4): 793–816. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00488.x. edit
Categories:
- Balaenidae
- Fossil taxa described in 2005
- Pliocene mammals of Europe
- Baleen whales
- Pliocene cetaceans
- Prehistoric cetacean genera
- Prehistoric cetacean stubs