Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Full reference: P. Gervais. 1849. Sur la repartition des mammiferes fossiles entre les differents etages tertiaires qui concourent a former le sol de la France. C. R. Acad. Scie 28(21):643-647
Belongs to Physeter according to L. Joleaud 1906
See also Depéret 1887, Gervais 1859, Gervais 1861, Pictet 1853, Trouessart 1904 and Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
Sister taxa: Physeter macrocephalus, Physeter vetus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Montpellier, which is in a Zanclean marine sandstone in the Sables à Gryphaea virleti Formation of France
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of France (1 collection)
• Neogene of France (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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