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Rorqual whale(s)

family Balaenopteridae Gray, 1864

• Modern species: Miocene - Present (16.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Cetartiodactyla, infraorder Cetacea, superfamily Mysticeti

• Distribution
• Miocene: Tochigi, Hiroshima
• Miocene-Pliocene: Yamagata
• Pliocene: Hokkaido
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido

• Subtaxa
• Balaenopteridae, family