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Zygophyseter
Taxonomy
Zygophyseter was named by Bianucci and Landini (2006). Its type is Zygophyseter varolai.
It was assigned to Physeterida by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Panphyseteroidea by Velez-Juarbe et al. (2015), Berta (2017); and to Physeteroidea by Bianucci and Landini (2006), Bianucci and Varola (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Collareta et al. (2017), Reumer et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Physeterida by Bianucci and Landini (2007); to Panphyseteroidea by Velez-Juarbe et al. (2015), Berta (2017); and to Physeteroidea by Bianucci and Landini (2006), Bianucci and Varola (2014), Marx et al. (2016), Collareta et al. (2017), Reumer et al. (2017).
Species
Z. varolai (type species)
Entered
by M. Uhen on 2006-09-14; modified by P. Wagner on 2025-11-23
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2006 | Zygophyseter Bianucci and Landini p. 106 |
| 2007 | Zygophyseter Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1 |
| 2014 | Zygophyseter Bianucci and Varola p. 116 |
| 2015 | Zygophyseter Velez-Juarbe et al. p. 15 figs. Fig. 10 |
| 2016 | Zygophyseter Marx et al. p. 123 |
| 2017 | Zygophyseter Berta p. 161 |
| 2017 | Zygophyseter Collareta et al. p. 269 figs. Figure 6 |
| 2017 | Zygophyseter Reumer et al. p. 33 |
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G. †Zygophyseter Bianucci and Landini 2006
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†Zygophyseter varolai Bianucci and Landini 2006
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available