Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae

Alternative combinations: Belemnoziphius recurvus, Dioplodon recurvus, Mesoplodon recurvus

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 Ziphirostrum according to G. Bianucci et al. 2013

See also Abel 1905, Brandt 1873, Du Bus 1868, Lambert 2005, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden and Gervais 1880, Vanden Broeck 1874 and Vigliarolo 1894

Sister taxa: Ziphirostrum marginatum, Ziphirostrum turninense

Type specimen: IRSNB 3805-M.44, a 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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