- also
known as
whalebone whales, are
marine mammals of the
parvorder Mysticeti in the
infraorder Cetacea (whales,
dolphins and porpoises),
which use...
- whale, and the
poorly understood beaked whales) and the
filter feeding Mysticeti or
baleen whales (which
includes species like the blue whale, the humpback...
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Balaenidae (/bəˈlɛnɪdeɪ, -diː/) is a
family of
whales of the
parvorder Mysticeti (baleen whales) that
contains mostly fossil taxa and two
living genera:...
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Neobalaenidae is a
family of
baleen whales (suborder
Mysticeti)
including the
extant pygmy right whale.
Although traditionally considered related to balaenids...
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Cetotheriidae is a
family of
baleen whales (parvorder
Mysticeti). The
family is
known to have
existed from the Late
Oligocene to the
Early Pleistocene...
- porpoises. It is
divided into
toothed whales (Odontoceti) and
baleen whales (
Mysticeti),
which diverged from each
other in the
Eocene some 50
million years ago...
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Janjucetus is an
extinct genus of cetacean, and a
basal baleen whale (
Mysticeti), from the Late
Oligocene around 25
million years ago (mya) off south-east...
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cetaceans from land to sea. The two
modern parvorders of
cetaceans –
Mysticeti (baleen whales) and
Odontoceti (toothed whales) – are
thought to have...
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about 54
million years ago. The two
parvorders of whales,
baleen whales (
Mysticeti) and
toothed whales (Odontoceti), are
thought to have had
their last common...
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formally described extinct toothed mysticetis from this time are smaller, from 3 to 4
metres (10 to 13 ft) in length.
Mysticeti with true
baleen are seen in...
