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 Pterocetus according to G. Bianucci et al. 2007
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SAM PQ 2803, a partial skull (partial skull including most of the rostrum, the anterior part of the cranium and the vertex). Its type locality is Saldanha Bay, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine phosphorite in South Africa.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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