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Balaenoptera siberi
Taxonomy
Balaenoptera siberi was named by Pilleri (1989) [specimen is in the private collection of H. J Sieber, Aathal (Schweiz)]. Its type specimen is Private collection of Allejandro Pezzia Asserto, a skeleton (skull & skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Aguada de Lomas, which is in a Tortonian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Balaenopteridae by Bosselaers and Post (2010).
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Balaenopteridae by Bosselaers and Post (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1989 | Balaenoptera siberi Pilleri p. 77 figs. Fig. 1-6, Plates 1-10 |
| 1996 | Balaenoptera siberi Cozzuol p. 326 |
| 2005 | Balaenoptera siberi Deméré et al. p. 105 figs. Table II |
| 2015 | Balaenoptera siberi Marx and Fordyce p. 4 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Balaenoptera siberi Tsai and Boessenecker p. 4 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Balaenoptera siberi Pilleri 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1991, Uhen 2004 | |||||
Age range: Tortonian or 11.63000 to 7.24600 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian | Peru (Arequipa) | Balaenoptera siberi (type locality: 45485) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Peru | Balaenoptera siberi (46083) |