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| Specimens with Sequences: | 8 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 8 |
| Public Records: | 8 |
| Species: | 1 |
| Species With Barcodes: | 1 |
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Balaena
Balaena is a genus of cetacean in the Balaenidae family. This family is also known as the Right Whales, which can cause confusion as there is also a species of whale called the Right Whale. The only extant species is the Bowhead whale. The fossil record of Balaena, dating to the late Miocene, encompasses ten species known from finds in Europe, North America, and South America.[1] Leiobalaena, described by Eschricht in 1849, is a junior synonym.
Taxonomy
- Balaena Bowhead whales
- †Balaena affinis (Pliocene; Red Crag Formation, UK)
- †Balaena arcuata (Miocene/Pliocene; Belgium)
- †Balaena dubusi (Miocene/Pliocene; Belgium)
- †Balaena forsythmajori (Zanclean; Case il Poggio. Italy)
- †Balaena larteti (Neogene; Landes, France)
- †Balaena macrocephalus (Langhian; Sos, France)
- †Balaena montalionis (Piacenzian; Casina, Italy).
- Balaena mysticetus, Bowhead Whale (Late Pleistocene to Modern)
- †Balaena pampaea (Calabrian; Pampeana Formation, Bahía Blanca, Argentina)
- †Balaena ricei (Piacenzian; Rice's Pit, Yorktown Formation, Virginia, USA).
- †Balaena simpsoni (Miocene/Pliocene; Ancud, Chile)
References
- ^ The Paleobiology Database Balaena entry accessed on 21 December 2010
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