Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae

Alternative combinations: Burtinopsis minutus, Megaptera (Burtinopsis) minuta, Megaptera minuta, Megaptera minutus

Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1880. Les mysticetes a courts fanons des sables des environs d'anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1880:11-27

Belongs to Balaenoptera according to T. A. Demere et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Balaenoptera brevicauda, Balaenoptera cephalus, Balaenoptera davidsonii, Balaenoptera fasciata, Balaenoptera floridana, Balaenoptera physalus, Balaenoptera ryani, Balaenoptera sursiplana, Balaenoptera taiwanica

Type specimen: none designated, a partial skull. Its type locality is Sable Superieur d'Anvers, which is in a Zanclean coastal sandstone in the Kattendijk Formation of Belgium.

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder