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 Mesoplodon according to O. Lambert and S. Louwye 2016

See also Bianucci et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Mesoplodon bidens, Mesoplodon blasiusi, Mesoplodon bononiensis, Mesoplodon bowdoini, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi, Mesoplodon danconae, Mesoplodon densirostris, Mesoplodon eueu, Mesoplodon europaeus, Mesoplodon ginkgodens, Mesoplodon grayi, Mesoplodon hectori, Mesoplodon hotaula, Mesoplodon lawleyi, Mesoplodon layardii, Mesoplodon medilineatus, Mesoplodon meneghinii, Mesoplodon mirus, Mesoplodon perrini, Mesoplodon peruvianus, Mesoplodon posti, Mesoplodon stejnegeri, Mesoplodon traversii, Ziphius gibbus, Ziphius tenuirostris

Type specimen: SAM PQ 2069, a partial skull (partial skull including the deeply worn rostrum base, the premaxillary sac fossae, and the vertex). Its type locality is Slangkop, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine phosphorite in South Africa.

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Slangkop

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