Glaucabalaena

Glaucabalaena
Temporal range: Pliocene (Zanclean-Piacenzian),
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Eschrichtiidae
Genus: †
Bisconti et al., 2024
Type species
†Glaucabalaena inopinata
Bisconti et al., 2024

Glaucabalaena is an extinct genus of gray whale that lived during the Pliocene epoch. The genus is known from a single species, Glaucabalaena inopinata, which was described in 2024 by Michelangelo Bisconti and colleagues based off the holotype specimen MGPT-PU 19512. This specimen consists of fragments of the skull and mandible, and was recovered from the Sabbie d'Asti Formation of Piedmont, Italy.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bisconti, Michelangelo; Damarco, Piero; Marengo, Lorenza; Macagno, Mattia; Daniello, Riccardo; Pavia, Marco; Carnevale, Giorgio (5 September 2024). "Anatomy and Relationships of a New Gray Whale from the Pliocene of Piedmont, Northwestern Italy". Diversity. 16 (9): 547. Bibcode:2024Diver..16..547B. doi:10.3390/d16090547. ISSN 1424-2818.
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