Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Invalid subtaxa: Dioplodon hemixem Van Beneden 1860 [replaced name], Mioziphius belgicus Abel 1905, Ziphirostrum gracile Du Bus 1868, Ziphirostrum hemixemi Van Beneden 1860 [replaced name], Ziphirostrum hemixemii Van Beneden 1860 [replaced name], Ziphirostrum laevigatum Du Bus 1868, Ziphirostrum tumidum Du Bus 1868
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
Belongs to Ziphirostrum according to B. Ramassamy 2016
See also Abel 1905, Bianucci et al. 2013, Du Bus 1868, Lambert 2005, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden 1860, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: Ziphirostrum recurvus, Ziphirostrum turninense
Type specimens:
- Ziphirostrum marginatum: IRSNM 3783-M.1878, a skull. Its type locality is Deurne (Fort 1), Deurne Sand, which is in a Tortonian lagoonal sandstone in the Diest Formation of Belgium.
- Dioplodon hemixem:
- Mioziphius belgicus: MRHNB 3845, a skull.
- Ziphirostrum gracile: IRSNM 3827-M.1879, a skull.
- Ziphirostrum laevigatum: IRSNM 3830-M.542, a skull.
- Ziphirostrum tumidum:
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1 collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (3), the Netherlands (2)
Total: 7 collections including 9 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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