Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Alternative combination: Placoziphius duboisi
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1869. Sur un nouveau genre de ziphioide fossil (Placoziphius), trouve a Edeghem, pres d'Anvers. Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique 28:2-12
Belongs to Placoziphius according to J. Velez-Juarbe et al. 2015
See also Abel 1905, Brandt 1873, Lambert 2008, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden 1869, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: IRSNB M.530, a partial skull (IRSNB M.530). Its type locality is Edegem, which is in an Aquitanian/Burdigalian marine sandstone in the Berchem Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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