page_title: Balaenoptera
hierarchical_section_title: Balaenoptera
caption_attribution_description: English: Fossil of Balaenoptera acutorostrata cuvieri from Pliocene of Italy, on display at the Museo Paleontologico, Asti
context_page_description: Balaenoptera, from Latin: balaena and Ancient Greek: pteron, is a genus of Balaenopteridae, the rorquals, and contains eight extant species. The species Balaenoptera omurai was published in 2003. Balaenoptera is a diverse genus and comprises all but one of the extant species in its family—the other species is the humpback whale.
  This genus is known in the fossil records from the Neogene to the Quaternary.
context_section_description: Balaenoptera, from Latin: balaena ('whale') and Ancient Greek: pteron ('fin'), is a genus of Balaenopteridae, the rorquals, and contains eight extant species. The species Balaenoptera omurai was published in 2003. Balaenoptera is a diverse genus and comprises all but one of the extant species in its family—the other species is the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).
  This genus is known in the fossil records from the Neogene to the Quaternary (age range: from 13.65 million years ago to the present).
caption: Fossil of a common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata cuvieri[citation needed]) from the Pliocene in Italy
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