Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Full reference: G. Bianucci, O. Lambert, and K. Post. 2007. A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa. Geodiversitas 29(4):561-618

Parent taxon: Berardiinae according to O. Lambert and S. Louwye 2016

See also Berta 2017, Bianucci et al. 2024, Bianucci et al. 2007, Bianucci et al. 2010, Lambert et al. 2009, Lambert et al. 2013 and Marx et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Archaeoziphius, Berardius

Subtaxa: Microberardius africanus

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Type: Microberardius africanus

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Southern Africa, offshore (Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa)

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