Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Full reference: A. Cabrera. 1926. Cetaceos fossiles del Museo de La Plata. Revista del Museo de La Plata 29:363-411

Belongs to Plesiocetus according to M. A. Cozzuol 1996

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

Type specimen: MDLP 5-13. Its type locality is Cerro del Castillo, Trelew, which is in a Burdigalian marine horizon in the Gaiman Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder