Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative combinations: Dioplodon compressior, Dioplodon compressus, Mesoplodon compressus
Full reference: T. H. Huxley. 1864. On the cetacean fossils termed Ziphius by Cuvier, with a notice of a new species (Belemnoziphius compressus) from the Red Crag. Proceedings of the Geological Society 20:388-396
Belongs to Belemnoziphius according to M. D. Uhen et al. 2008
See also Abel 1905, Fordyce 1991, Huxley 1864, Lydekker 1887, Newton 1891, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vigliarolo 1894
Sister taxon: Belemnoziphius prorops
Type specimen: Its type locality is Blackheath, which is in a Piacenzian foreshore horizon in the Red Crag Formation of the United Kingdom
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Pliocene of the United Kingdom (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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