Imocetus Bianucci et al. 2013 (beaked whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Full reference: G. Bianucci, I. Miján, and O. Lambert. 2013. Bizarre fossil beaked whales (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula. Geodiversitas 35(1):105-153

Parent taxon: Hyperoodontinae according to B. Ramassamy 2016

See also Berta 2017, Bianucci et al. 2013, Lambert et al. 2013 and Marx et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Africanacetus, Globicetus, Hyperoodon, Ihlengesi, Indopacetus, Khoikhoicetus, Mesoplodon, Tusciziphius

Subtaxa: Imocetus piscatus

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Nazare Canyon (Miocene to Pliocene of Portugal)

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