A new species of rorqual whale (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) from the Late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the role of the North Atlantic in the paleobiogeography of Archaebalaenoptera

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Michelangelo Bisconti, Dirk K. Munsterman, René H.B. Fraaije, Mark E.J. Bosselaers, Klaas Post
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Antitropicality; Archaebalaenoptera; Balaenopteridae; Mediterranean salinity crisis; Miocene; North Atlantic Ocean; Medicine; R; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Pacific; Rorqual; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8315; https://doaj.org/article/b7a5e6859ba34def888e8ad0879eb38f

Background The rich fossil record of rorqual and humpback whales (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae) is mainly characterized by monotypic genera since genera including more than one species are extremely rare. The discovery of new species belonging to known genera would be of great importance in o...