Nehalaennia

Nehalaennia; Temporal range: Late Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Infraorder:	Cetacea
Family:	Balaenopteridae
Genus:	† Nehalaennia ; Bisconti, Munstermann & Post, 2019
Species:	†N. devossi
Binomial name
	†Nehalaennia devossi; Bisconti, Munstermann & Post, 2019

Last updated August 26, 2025

Nehalaennia is an extinct genus of baleen whale that inhabited the North Sea during the Late Miocene. It is known from the species Nehalaennia devossi.^[1]

References

↑ Bisconti, Michelangelo; Munsterman, Dirk K.; Post, Klaas (17 May 2019). "A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti)". PeerJ . 7 e6915. doi: 10.7717/peerj.6915 . ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6526909 . PMID 31149399.

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[1] Bisconti, Michelangelo; Munsterman, Dirk K.; Post, Klaas (17 May 2019). "A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti)". PeerJ . 7 e6915. doi: 10.7717/peerj.6915 . ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6526909 . PMID 31149399.

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