Protororqualus
Name:
Protororqualus
(first rorqual).
Phonetic: Pro-to-ro-kwal-us.
Named By: M. Bisconti - 2007.
Synonyms: Cetotherium cuverii.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Artiodactyla, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae.
Species: P. cuverii (type).
Diet: Filter feeder.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Italy.
Time period: Pliocene.
Fossil representation: Almost complete skull and
post cranial skeleton.
Protororqualus
is a genus of rorqual baleen whale
that lived in European waters during
the Pliocene period. Protororqualus is seen to be
more primitive in
form and living at time when other kinds of rorqual whales were already
developing more advanced features.
Further reading
- Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic relationships of the
rorqual-like mysticete from the Pliocene of Mount Pulgnasco, northern
Italy (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). - Palaeontolographica
Italica 91:85-108. - M. Bisconti - 2007.
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