Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Alternative combination: Berardius bairdi
Belongs to Berardius according to B. Ramassamy 2016
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Barnes 1977, Hershkovitz 1966, Mead and Brownell 2005, Moore 1968, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Trouessart 1904 and Vidal 1991
Sister taxa: Berardius arnuxii, Berardius kobayashii, Berardius minimus
Type specimen: USNM 20992, a skull. Its type locality is Stare Gavan, which is in a Holocene coastal horizon in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.