Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Alternative combination: Eurhinodelphis sigmoideus
Full reference: G. Pilleri. 1985. The Miocene Cetacea of the Belluno Sandstones (Eastern Southern Alps). Memoire degli Instituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell'Universita di Padova 37:1-87
Belongs to Ziphiodelphis according to M. Fornasiero and L. Del Vavero 2014
See also Bianucci and Landini 2002, Lambert 2004, Lambert 2005, Pilleri 1985 and Pilleri 1990
Sister taxon: Ziphiodelphis abeli
Type specimen: Its type locality is Libano, which is in an Aquitanian marine sandstone in the Libano Sandstone Formation of Italy
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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