Berardius Duvernoy 1851 (beaked whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Full reference: M. Duvernoy. 1851. Memoire sure les characteres osteologiques des genres nouveaus ou des especesnouvelles de cetaces vivants out fossiles. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 15:1-71

Parent taxon: Berardiinae according to B. Ramassamy 2016

See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1977, Bianucci et al. 2007, Bianucci et al. 2010, Cope 1890, Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott 1951, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Fraser and Purves 1960, Geisler et al. 2011, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gill 1871, Gill 1872, Gray 1863, Gray 1865, Gray 1866, Gray 1868, Huxley 1864, Kasuya 1973, Kellogg 1928, Lambert 2005, Lambert et al. 2009, Lambert and Louwye 2016, Lambert et al. 2013, Loughlin and Perez 1985, Marx et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead and Brownell 2005, Moore 1968, Muizon 1990, Palmer 1904, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Simpson 1945, Trouessart 1904, Turner 1912, Vidal 1991, Weber 1928, Winge 1921, Yamada et al. 2019 and Zittel 1925

Sister taxa: Archaeoziphius, Microberardius

Subtaxa: Berardius arnuxii Berardius bairdii Berardius kobayashii Berardius minimus

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Type: Berardius arnuxi

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Chile (1), Japan (3), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Japan (1)

Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence

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