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pulchra Bisconti, 2012 (type) Miocaperea is an extinct genus of pygmy right whale from the Late Miocene Pisco Formation of Peru.

[1] Its type species is Miocaperea pulchra.

[2] The discovery of Miocaperea is significant, because neobalaenines were previously unknown in the fossil record, except for an isolated petrosal (ear bone) from late Miocene-aged deposits in Australia.

[3] A previous study placed the divergence date of Neobalaeninae from other mysticetes at about 23 million years,[4] and the age of Miocaperea lends credence to the notion of an origin for Neobalaeninae deep in the early Miocene.