Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Alternative combination: Ziphirostrum dicyrtum

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 Aporotus according to O. Lambert 2005

See also Brandt 1873, Du Bus 1868, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vanden Broeck 1874

Sister taxon: Aporotus recurvirostris

Type specimen: IRSNB 3808-M.541, a partial skull. Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium.

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Anvers

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