Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae

Full reference: P. Gervais. 1849. Sur la repartition des mammiferes fossiles entre les differents etages tertiaires qui concourent a former le sol de la France. C. R. Acad. Scie 28(21):643-647

Belongs to Physeter according to L. Joleaud 1906

See also Depéret 1887, Gervais 1859, Gervais 1861, Pictet 1853, Trouessart 1904 and Van Beneden and Gervais 1880

Sister taxon: Physeter macrocephalus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Montpellier, which is in a Zanclean marine sandstone in the Sables à Gryphaea virleti Formation of France

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Montpellier

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