Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Full reference: E. Vanden Broeck. 1874. Esquisse Geologique & paleontologique des depots Pliocenes des Environs d'Anvers. Memoires de la Societe Malacologiques de Belgique 9:87-374

Belongs to Plesiocetus according to E. Vanden Broeck 1874

Sister taxa: Balaenoptera (Plesiocetus) cortesii, Plesiocetus dubius, Plesiocetus dyticus, Plesiocetus gervaisii, Plesiocetus hupschii, Plesiocetus occidentalis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sablesmoyens d'Anvers, which is in a Tortonian coastal sandstone in the Diest Formation of Belgium

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder