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]
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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: | †Nehalaennia Bisconti, Munstermann & Post, 2019 |
| Species: | †N. devossi
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| †Nehalaennia devossi Bisconti, Munstermann & Post, 2019
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References
edit- ^ 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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