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Balaenula
| Balaenula Temporal range:
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| Balaenula balaenopsis holotype skeleton | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Balaenidae |
| Genus: | †Balaenula van Beneden, 1872 |
| Type species | |
| Balaenula balaenopsis van Beneden, 1872
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| Species | |
Balaenula is an extinct genus of baleen whale species which lived during the Pliocene epoch of Europe and possibly North America.[3][4] Balaenula is a small whale measuring within the range of 6–8 metres (20–26 ft) in length.[5]
- ^ 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
- ^ L. Trevisan. 1942. Una nuova specie de Balaenula pliocenica. Palaeontogrphia Italica 40:1-13
- ^ Churchill, M.; Berta, A.; Deméré, T. (2012). "The systematics of right whales (Mysteceti: Balaenidae)". Marine Mammal Science. 28 (3): 497–521. Bibcode:2012MMamS..28..497C. doi:10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00504.x.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
TF20was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Marx, F.G.; Lambert, O. (2020). "Fossil record" (PDF). In George, J.C.; Thewissen, J.G.M. (eds.). The Bowhead Whale Balaena mysticetus: Biology and Human Interactions. Academic Press. ISBN 9780128189696.
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