Mammalia - Cetacea - Eoplatanistidae
Alternative combination: Zignodelphis miocaenus
Full reference: G. Pilleri. 1989. Bemerkungen zur arbeit "Christian de Muizon: Le Polyphyletisme des Acrodelphidae, Odontocetes longirostres du Miocene Europeen", 1988. Contributions to the Paleontology of Some Tethyan Cetacea and Sirenia (Mammalia) II. 115-123
Belongs to Eoplatanista according to C. Muizon 1994
See also Pilleri 1989
Sister taxa: Eoplatanista gresalensis, Eoplatanista italica, Eoplatanista taurinensis
Type specimen: IGUP Nr. 26 154, a skull. Its type locality is Libano, which is in an Aquitanian marine sandstone in the Libano Sandstone Formation of Italy.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Libano
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