Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Full reference: G. Bianucci, O. Lambert, and K. Post. 2007. A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa. Geodiversitas 29(4):561-618
Parent taxon: Hyperoodontinae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Berta 2017, Bianucci et al. 2007, Bianucci et al. 2010, Goldin and Vishnyakova 2013, Ichishima et al. 2017, Lambert et al. 2009, Lambert et al. 2018, Lambert and Louwye 2016 and Lambert et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Globicetus, Hyperoodon, Ihlengesi, Imocetus, Indopacetus, Khoikhoicetus, Mesoplodon, Tusciziphius
Subtaxa: Africanacetus ceratopsis Africanacetus gracilis
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Brazil (1 collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Holocene of French Southern Territories (1)
• Neogene of Indian Ocean (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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