Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Full reference: G. Bianucci, C. Di Celma, M. Urbina and O. Lambert. 2016. New beaked whales from the late Miocene of Peru and evidence for convergent evolution in stem and crown Ziphiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti). PeerJ 4:e2479
Belongs to Chimuziphius according to G. Bianucci et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MUSM 2548, a partial skull (incomplete cranium lacking the anterior portion of the rostrum, most of the right side of the neurocranium, and most of the basicranium). Its type locality is Cerro Colorado (Pisco, Tortonian), which is in a Tortonian marine horizon in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Cerro Colorado (Pisco, Tortonian)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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