Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative spelling: Xiphirostrum
Synonyms: Mioziphius Abel 1905, Ziphirostre Van Beneden 1864
Full reference: B. Du Bus. 1868. Sur differents Ziphiides nouveaux du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts 25:621-630
Parent taxon: Ziphiidae according to F. G. Marx et al. 2016
See also Abel 1905, Abel 1919, Berta 2017, Bianucci et al. 2007, Bianucci et al. 2010, Bianucci et al. 1994, Carroll 1988, Du Bus 1868, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Geisler and Sanders 2003, Gill 1872, Kellogg 1928, Lambert 2005, Lambert et al. 2009, Lambert et al. 2013, Lydekker 1887, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead 1975, Muizon 1990, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002, Simpson 1945, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Winge 1921 and Zittel 1925
Sister taxa: Anarnacinae, Anoplonassa, Aporotus, Argyrodelphini, Belemnoziphius, Beneziphius, Berardiinae, Caviziphius, Chavinziphius, Chimuziphius, Choneziphiidae, Dagonodum, Dioplodon senensis, Eboroziphius, Hyperoodontinae, Messapicetus, Nenga, Ninoziphius, Notoziphius, Pelycorhamphus, Pterocetus, Rhinostodes, Rhinostodes lovisatoi, Synostodon, Tasmacetus, Xhosacetus, Ziphiina, Ziphiinae, Ziphiopsis, Indopacetina, Tasmacetina
Subtaxa: Ziphirostrum marginatum Ziphirostrum recurvus Ziphirostrum turninense
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection), Spain (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (4), the Netherlands (2)
Total: 9 collections including 12 occurrences
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