Name
Diunatans (Long time swimming).
Phonetic
De-u-nay-tans.
Named By
M. Bosselaers & K. Post - 2010.
Classification
Chordata, Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae.
Diet
Carnivore/filter feeder.
Species
D. luctoretemergo
Size
Roughly estimated to have been about 9.5 to 10 meters in length.
Known locations
Netherlands - Kattendijk Formation.
Time Period
Zanclean of the Pliocene.
Fossil representation
Partial remains.
Diunatans is a genus of rorqual whale that would have been swimming around in what is now the North Sea during the early Pliocene.
- A new fossil rorqual (Mammalia, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae) from the Early Pliocene of the North Sea, with a review of the rorqual species described by Owen and Van Beneden. - Geodiversitas 32(2):331-363. - M. Bosselaers & K. Post - 2010.
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