Diunatans
| Diunatans Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Balaenopteridae |
| Genus: | †Diunatans Bosselaers and Post, 2010 |
| Species: | †D. luctoretemergo
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| Binomial name | |
| †Diunatans luctoretemergo Bosselaers and Post, 2010
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Diunatans is an extinct
Its name means "long-distance swimmer", from the Latin diu meaning "long time" or "long distance", and natans, meaning "swimming." The type species is D. luctoretemergo, named after the motto of Zeeland, "Luctor et Emergo" (Latin for "I struggle and I emerge").[1]
Diunatans was around the size of the living
tympanic bulla, which encapsulates the middle ear, is also large.[1]
Diunatans is the only known fossil rorqual from the North Sea. Many other fossil rorquals have been described, but all are now considered
paleontologist Richard Owen named Balaenoptera definata, B. emarginata, and B. gibbosa in 1844. In the late 19th century, Belgian paleontologist Pierre-Joseph van Beneden named B. borealina, B. musculoides, B. rostratella, B. sibbaldina, Plesiocetus goropii, Megapteropsis robusta, and Megaptera affinus.[1]
References
- ^ S2CID 84103809. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-06-12.
