Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative combination: Ziphirostrum recurvirostrum
Synonyms: Aporotus affinis Du Bus 1868, Ziphirostrum affinis Du Bus 1868
Full reference: B. Du Bus. 1868. Sur differents Ziphiides nouveaux du crag d'Anvers. Bulletins de L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts 25:621-630
Belongs to Aporotus according to B. Ramassamy 2016
See also Abel 1905, Buffrenil and Lambert 2011, Du Bus 1868, Lambert 2005, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxon: Aporotus dicyrtus
Type specimens:
- Aporotus recurvirostris: IRSNB 3812-M.1887, a skull. Its type locality is Aporotus recurvirostris type locality, which is in a Serravallian/Tortonian marine horizon in Belgium.
- Aporotus affinis: Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection)
• Miocene of Belgium (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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