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
Belongs to Africanacetus according to G. Bianucci et al. 2007
See also Goldin and Vishnyakova 2013, Ichishima et al. 2017 and Lambert et al. 2018
Sister taxon: Africanacetus gracilis
Type specimen: NMR 9991-00001993, a partial skull (a partial skull including the rostrum and the dorsal part of the cranium with the vertex). Its type locality is Southern Africa, offshore, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine phosphorite in South Africa.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Holocene of French Southern Territories (1 collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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