Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Full reference: R. Kellogg. 1944. Fossil Cetaceans from the Florida Tertiary. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College XCIV(9):433-471

Belongs to Balaenoptera according to M. D. Uhen 2015

Sister taxa: Balaenoptera brevicauda, Balaenoptera cephalus, Balaenoptera davidsonii, Balaenoptera fasciata, Balaenoptera minutis, Balaenoptera physalus, Balaenoptera ryani, Balaenoptera sursiplana, Balaenoptera taiwanica

Type specimen: MCZ 17882, a mandible (right mandible). Its type locality is American Agricultural Chemical Company Mine, which is in a Serravallian lagoonal sandstone in the Bone Valley Formation of Florida.

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder