Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Full reference: M. Bosselaers and K. Post. 2010. A new fossil rorqual (Mammalia, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae) from the Early Pliocene of the North Sea, with a review of the rorqual species described by Owen and Van Beneden. Geodiversitas 32(2):331-363

Parent taxon: Balaenopteridae according to M. Bosselaers and K. Post 2010

Sister taxa: Agaphelinae, Archaebalaenoptera, Balaenoptera, Balaenopterinae, Cetotheriophanes, Eschrichtiinae, Megaptera, Megapterinae, Notiocetus, Parabalaenoptera, Parabalaenopterinae, Plesiobalaenoptera, Plesiocetus, Praemegaptera, Praemegapterinae, Protororqualus, Pterobalaena, Rorqualus

Subtaxa: Diunatans luctoretemergo

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Type: Diunatans luctoretemergo

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder