Balaenotus

Balaenotus is an extinct genus of cetaceans from the Pliocene of Belgium.[1]

Balaenotus
Temporal range: Pliocene
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Balaenotus insignis vertebra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Balaenidae
Genus: †Balaenotus
Van Beneden, 1872
Species

†B. insignis Van Beneden 1872
(Type)

Classification

Balaenotus is known only from the type species B. insignis.[2][3]

References
  1. 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.
  2. P. J. Van Beneden. 1872. Les Baleines fossiles d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts 34:6-23
  3. M. Bisconti. 2003. Evolutionary history of Balaenidae. Craniium 20(1):9-50


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