Parietobalaena
| Parietobalaena Temporal range: Miocene | |
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| Parietobalaena palmeri, AMNH | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cetacea |
| Suborder: | Mysticeti |
| Family: | Pelocetidae |
| Genus: | Parietobalaena Kellogg 1924, p. 1 |
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Parietobalaena is an extinct genus of baleen whale, belonging to the family Pelocetidae. Fossils are found in Miocene-aged marine strata in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan.[1][2]
References
Notes
- ↑ "Parietobalaena". Fossilworks. Retrieved November 2013.
- ↑ Steeman 2010
Sources
- Bisconti, M.; Lambert, O.; Bosselaers, M. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of Isocetus depauwi (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) and the phylogenetic relationships of archaic 'cetothere' mysticetes". Palaeontology 56 (1): 95–127. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01168.x. ISSN 0031-0239. OCLC 826744606. Lay summary.
- Kellogg, R. (1924). "Description of a new genus and species of whalebone whale from the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 63 (2483): 1–14. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.63-2483.1. OCLC 631781115. Retrieved November 2013. Lay summary (November 2013).
- Kellogg, R. (1931). "Pelagic mammals of the Temblor Formation of the Kern River region, California". Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 19 (12): 217–397. Retrieved November 2013.
- Otsuka, H.; Ota, Y. (2008). "Cetotheres from the early Middle Miocene Bihoku Group in Shobara District, Hiroshima Prefecture, West Japan". Miscellaneous Reports of the Hiwa Museum for Natural History 49: 1–66. Lay summary (November 2013).
- Steeman, M. E. (March 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. doi:10.1080/14772011003594961.
- Van Beneden, P, J. (1880). "Les Mysticètes à courts fanons des sables des environs d'Anvers". Bulletin de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. 2. 11–27. Retrieved November 2013.
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