†Aporotus dicyrtus Du Bus 1868 (beaked whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative combination: Ziphirostrum dicyrtum
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 O. Lambert 2005
See also Du Bus 1868, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxon: Aporotus recurvirostris
Type specimen: IRSNB 3808-M.541, a partial skull. Its type locality is Anvers, which is in a Miocene/Pliocene marine horizon in Belgium.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Anvers
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