Summary: | FIGURE 1. A. Prey size of baleen whales modified from Gaskin (1982) with prey information in Jefferson et al. (2008). B. Modern baleen whale phylogeny and information of prey types + prey capture tactics. Phylogeny was combined the tree of the Balaenopteridae in Rosel et al. (2021) and the tree in Steeman et al. (2009) for the relationships of others. Published as part of Tanaka, Yoshihiro, 2023, A feeding organ the basihyal and thyrohyal tells which size of prey do true baleen whales (Cetacea, Chaeomysticeti) eat, pp. 1-22 in Palaeontologia Electronica (a8) 27 (1) on page 2, DOI:10.26879/1311, http://zenodo.org/record/12654116
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