Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. Third contribution to the fauna of the Miocene period of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21(11):6-13

Belongs to Zarhachis according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Cope 1869, Cope 1875, Hay 1902, Leidy 1869, Rhoads 1903, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Van Beneden and Gervais 1880

Sister taxa: Zarhachis crassangulum, Zarhachis flagellator, Zarhachis tysonii

Type specimen: Its type locality is Shiloh Marl, which is in a Burdigalian marginal marine marl in the Kirkwood Formation of New Jersey

Ecology: aquatic piscivore

Distribution: found only at Shiloh Marl

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