Diunatans
Name: Diunatans
(Long time swimming).
Phonetic: De-u-nay-tans.
Named By: M. Bosselaers & K. Post -
2010.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Cetacea,
Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae.
Species: D. luctoretemergo
(type).
Diet: Carnivore/filter feeder.
Size: Roughly estimated to have been about 9.5
to 10 meters in length.
Known locations: Netherlands - Kattendijk
Formation.
Time period: Zanclean of the Pliocene.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Diunatans is a genus of rorqual whale that would have been swimming around in what is now the North Sea during the early Pliocene.
Further reading
- A new fossil rorqual (Mammalia, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae)
from the Early Pliocene of the North Sea, with a review of the
rorqual species described by Owen and Van Beneden. - Geodiversitas
32(2):331-363. - M. Bosselaers & K. Post -
2010.
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