Balaenula
Sign in to saveBalaenula is an extinct genus of baleen whale species which lived during the Pliocene epoch of Europe and possibly North America. Balaenula is a small whale measuring within the range of in length.
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It is catalogued under topics including Balaenidae, Fossil taxa described in 1872 and Pliocene cetaceans.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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Balaenula is an extinct genus of baleen whale species which lived during the Pliocene epoch of Europe and possibly North America. Balaenula is a small whale measuring within the range of in length.
==Taxonomy== Historically, Balaenula has been treated as a wastebasket taxon, so recent taxonomic revisions have resulted in only two named species of Balaenula to be known from the Pliocene epoch in the marine strata of Belgium and Italy, but the recognition of the type specimen as an individual is doubtful.
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