Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Full reference: G. Bianucci, A. M. Benites-Palomino, A. Collareta, G. Bosio, C. Muizon, M. Merella, C. Di Celma, E. Malinverno, M. Urbina and O. Lambert. 2024. A new Late Miocene beaked whale (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Pisco Formation, and a revised age for the fossil Ziphiidae of Peru. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63(1):21-43

Belongs to Mamaziphius according to G. Bianucci et al. 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MUSM 4687, a partial skull (partial cranium lacking most of the rostrum, the zygomatic processes of the squamosal, the occipital condyles and the ear bones). Its type locality is Cerros la Mama y la Hija, which is in a Tortonian marine horizon in the Pisco Formation of Peru.

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cerros la Mama y la Hija

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