Subfamily Hyperoodontinae Muizon 1990 (beaked whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1990. A new Ziphiidae (Cetacea) from the Early Miocene of Washington State (USA) and phylogenetic analysis of the major groups of odontocetes. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 4e Serie. Section C. Sciences de la Terre. Paleontologie, Geologie, Mineralogie 12(3-4):279-326

Parent taxon: Vomeroziphii according to G. Bianucci et al. 2024

See also Bianucci et al. 2007, Bianucci and Landini 2007, Bianucci et al. 2023, Fordyce and Barnes 1994, Fordyce et al. 1995, Fordyce and de Muizon 2001, Ichishima et al. 2017, Lambert et al. 2009, Lambert et al. 2018, Lambert and Louwye 2016, Lambert et al. 2013, Marx et al. 2016, Muizon 1990 and Rice 1998

Sister taxon: Ziphiinae

Subtaxa: Africanacetus Hyperoodon Ihlengesi Indopacetus Khoikhoicetus Mesoplodon Pterocetus Xhosacetus

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Australia (4), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Chile (1), Denmark (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (1), Japan (6), Malaysia (1), Maldives (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (12), North Pacific (1), Peru (2), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Somalia (1), South Africa (5), Spain (2), Sri Lanka (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina), United States Minor Outlying Islands (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1), South Pacific (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (2), Belgium (2), Italy (14), New Zealand (1), South Atlantic (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene to Holocene of Indian Ocean (7)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Portugal (1), South Africa (4), South Pacific (1)

• Miocene of Italy (2), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Atlantic (1), Spain (1)

• Neogene of Indian Ocean (3), South Pacific (5)

Total: 118 collections including 130 occurrences

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