Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Full reference: C. Muizon. 1983. Un Ziphiidae nouveau du Pliocene inferieur de Perou. Comptes rendus de l'Academic des Sciences Paris Serie II 297:85-88
Belongs to Ninoziphius according to B. Ramassamy 2016
See also Geisler et al. 2011, Muizon 1983, Uhen et al. 2008 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SAS 941, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Sud-Sacaco West (SAS) horizon, which is in a Messinian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of United States (3: Florida, North Carolina collections)
• Hemphillian of United States (2: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Peru (1), United States (2: North Carolina, Virginia)
Total: 9 collections including 10 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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