Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative spelling: Mesoplodon (Cetorhynchus)
Full reference: P. Gervais. 1861. Sur différents espèces de vertébrés fossiles observées pour la plupart dans le Midi de la France [On different species of vertebrate fossils observed mostly in the South of France]. Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier, Mémoires de la Section des Sciences 5:117-132
Parent taxon: Ziphiinae according to R. E. Fordyce and C. de Muizon 2001
See also Abel 1905, Carroll 1988, Gervais 1861, Kellogg 1922, Kellogg 1928, McKenna and Bell 1997, Mead 1975, Muizon 1990, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002 and Simpson 1945
Sister taxa: Berardini, Choneziphius, Izikoziphius, Nazcacetus, Ziphius
Subtaxa: Cetorhynchus atavus Cetorhynchus christoli
Type: Cetorhynchus christoli
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Belgium (1 collection), France (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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