In Depth
Protororqualus is a genus of rorqual baleen whale that lived in European waters during the Pliocene period. Protororqualus is seen to be more primitive in form and living at time when other kinds of rorqual whales were already developing more advanced features.
Further reading
- Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic relationships of the rorqual-like mysticete from the Pliocene of Mount Pulgnasco, northern Italy (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). - Palaeontolographica Italica 91:85-108. - M. Bisconti - 2007.
