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Archaebalaenoptera is a genus of extinct rorqual from the Pliocene (Piacenzian) of northern Italy. Its type species is A. castriarquati.
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Classification
Archaebalaenoptera was discovered in 1983 from the sediments of the Lower Pliocene Castell’Arquato Formation in northern Italy. A cladistic analysis of Balaenopteridae recovered Archaebalaenoptera as the most primitive rorqual.
Paleobiology
The primitive morphology of the jaw suggests that Archaebalaenoptera probably was not capable of ram feeding like living rorquals and humpback whales.
References
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