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Baleen whale(s)

superfamily Mysticeti Flower, 1864

• Modern species
• Habitat: Marine

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

• Distribution
• Oligocene: Iwate
• Miocene: Hokkaido, Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Gifu, Shiga, Okayama, Hiroshima
• Miocene-Pliocene: Hokkaido, Yamagata
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Fukushima
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Tokyo
• Holocene: Chiba

• Subtaxa
• Balaenopteridae, family
• Balaenura, genus
• Eschrichtius, genus
• Joumocetus shimizui