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: Hyperoodontinae according to G. Bianucci et al. 2024
See also Bianucci et al. 2007, Lambert et al. 2018, Lambert and Louwye 2016 and Marx et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Africanacetus, Hyperoodon, Ihlengesi, Indopacetus, Mesoplodon, Pterocetus, Xhosacetus
Subtaxa: Khoikhoicetus agulhasis Khoikhoicetus kergueleni
Type: Khoikhoicetus agulhasis
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Holocene of French Southern Territories (1 collection)
• Miocene of South Africa (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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