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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...
- Antwerpibalaena is an extinct genus of balaenid that lived during the Pliocene epoch. Antwerpibalaena liberatlas fossils are known from Belgium. de Lavigerie...
- Morenocetus is an extinct genus of primitive balaenid from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian and Colhuehuapian in the SALMA classification) Gaiman Formation...
- four families: rorquals (balaenopterids), cetotheriids, right whales (balaenids), and grey whales (eschrichtiids). The main difference between each family...
- Archaeobalaena is an extinct genus of balaenid whale that lived during the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch. Archaeobalaena dosanko is known from fossils...
- Balaenella is an extinct genus of balaenid from the early Pliocene of the vicinity of Antwerp, Belgium. Its type species is Balaena brachyrhynchus. A cladistic...
- (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae (gray whale) and Cetotheriidae (pygmy right whale). Balaenids are distinguished by their enlarged head and thick blubber, while rorquals...
- Cetaceans: Whales, dolphins and porpoises Baleen whales (mysticetes) Balaenids: right whales and bowhead whale Rorquals (balaenopterids) Gray whale Pygmy...
- Peripolocetus is a genus of balaenid baleen whale from the middle Miocene of Kern County, California. Like other non-balaenopteroid thal****otheres, Peripolocetus...
- confirmed that pygmy right whales are more closely related to rorquals than to balaenid right whales, consistent with a close relationship with the cetotheres...