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| Rank | superfamily (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Balaenoidea |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Mysticete | stated without evidence | Gray, 1868 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | subjective synonym of Mysticete | stated without evidence | Gill, 1873 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Mysticete | stated without evidence | Hay, 1930 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Chaeomysticeti | stated without evidence | Mitchell, 1989 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Mysticeti | stated without evidence | Sanders and Barnes, 2002 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Balaenomorpha | stated without evidence | Geisler and Sanders, 2003 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Mysticeti | stated without evidence | Bisconti, 2003 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Chaeomysticeti | stated without evidence | Steeman, 2007 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Mysticeti | stated without evidence | Bianucci and Landini, 2007 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Chaeomysticeti | stated without evidence | Bisconti, 2008 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Mysticeti | stated without evidence | Rice, 2009 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Chaeomysticeti | stated without evidence | Steeman, 2010 | | Balaenoidea | superfamily | belongs to Balaenomorpha | stated with evidence | Bisconti et al., 2017 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (100%) |
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| Environment | marine (based on Mysticeti) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Cetacea) |
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| Diet | carnivore, suspension feeder (based on Mysticeti) |
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| Reproduction | viviparous (based on Cetacea) |
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| Ontogeny | modification of parts (based on Cetacea) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Mysticeti) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | W. H. Flower. 1865. Notes on the skeletons of whales in the principal museums of Holland and Belgium, with descriptions of two species apparently new to Science. 1864:384-420 |
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| Flower W. H. Notes on the skeletons of whales in the principal museums of Holland and Belgium, with descriptions of two species apparently new to Science 1864, 384-420 |
| Gray J. E. , Synopsis of the species of whales and dolphins in the Collection of the British Museum, 1-10 |
| Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074 |
| Mitchell E. D. (1989) A new cetacean from the late Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46 12, 2219-2235 |
| Sanders A. E., Barnes L. G. (2002) Paleontology of the Late Oligocene Ashley and Chandler Bridge Formations of South Carolina, 3: Eomysticetidae, a new family of primitive mysticetes (Mammalia: Cetacea), Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93, 313-356 |
| Steeman M. E. (2007) Cladistic analysis and a revised classification of fossil and recent mysticetes, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150, 875-894 |
| Bisconti M. (2008) Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new eschrichtiid genus (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the early Pliocene of northern Italy, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153, 161-186 |
| Steeman M. (2010) The extinct baleen whale fauna from the Miocene-Pliocene of Belgium and the diagnostic cetacean ear bones, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8 1, 63-80 |
| Bisconti M. (2012) Comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Miocaperea pulchra, the first fossil pygmy right whale genus and species (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Neobalaenidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166, 876-911 |
| Bisconti M., Lambert O., et al (2017) Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species, PeerJ 5, e3464 doi:10.7717/peerj.3464 |
Balaenoidea
