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Balaenidae as a
monophyletic group that is the
sister group to Neobalaenidae.
Balaenids are
large whales, with an
average adult length of 15 to 17
metres (45–50...
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Morenocetus is an
extinct genus of
primitive balaenid from the
Early Miocene (Burdigalian and
Colhuehuapian in the
SALMA classification)
Gaiman Formation...
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Antwerpibalaena is an
extinct genus of
balaenid that
lived during the
Pliocene epoch.
Antwerpibalaena liberatlas fossils are
known from Belgium. de Lavigerie...
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Archaeobalaena is an
extinct genus of
balaenid whale that
lived during the
Zanclean stage of the
Pliocene epoch.
Archaeobalaena dosanko is
known from fossils...
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Peripolocetus is a
genus of
balaenid baleen whale from the
middle Miocene of Kern County, California. Like
other non-balaenopteroid thal****otheres, Peripolocetus...
- four families:
rorquals (balaenopterids), cetotheriids,
right whales (
balaenids), and grey
whales (eschrichtiids). The main
difference between each family...
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pleats to
expand their mouths to take in food and
sieve out the water.
Balaenids (right
whales and
bowhead whales) have m****ive
heads that can make up...
- (rorquals),
Eschrichtiidae (gray whale) and
Cetotheriidae (pygmy
right whale).
Balaenids are
distinguished by
their enlarged head and
thick blubber,
while rorquals...
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confirmed that
pygmy right whales are more
closely related to
rorquals than to
balaenid right whales,
consistent with a
close relationship with the cetotheres...
- Cetaceans: Whales,
dolphins and
porpoises Baleen whales (mysticetes)
Balaenids:
right whales and
bowhead whale Rorquals (balaenopterids) Gray
whale Pygmy...
