Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenidae

Alternative combinations: Balaena belgica, Balaenula belgica

Full reference: O. Abel. 1941. Vorlaufige Mitteilungen über die Revision der fossilen Mystacoceten aus dem Tertiar Belgiens. Bulletin du Museum Royal d'Historie Naturelles du Belgique 17(32):1-29

Belongs to Eubalaena according to M. Churchill et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Eubalaena australis, Eubalaena glacialis, Eubalaena shinshuensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Anvers, Lillo Formation, which is in a Piacenzian marine sandstone in the Lillo Formation of Belgium

Ecology: aquatic suspension feeder