Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative combinations: Mesoplodon blasii, Ziphius blasii
Full reference: J. F. Brandt. 1873. Untersuchungen über die fossilen und subfossilen cetaceen Europa's. Mémoires de L'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg, Series 7 20(1):1-372
Belongs to Mesoplodon according to E. L. Trouessart 1904
See also Brandt 1873, Brandt 1874 and Trouessart 1898
Sister taxa: Mesoplodon bidens, 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 slangkopi, Mesoplodon stejnegeri, Mesoplodon traversii, Ziphius gibbus, Ziphius tenuirostris
Type specimen: Its type locality is Taman Peninsula, which is in a Serravallian marine claystone in the Russian Federation
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Taman Peninsula
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