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Taxonomy
Tusciziphius was named by Bianucci (1997). It was considered monophyletic by Lambert (2005).
It was assigned to Hyperoodontinae by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Ramassamy (2016); to Ziphiinae by Bianucci et al. (2007), Bianucci et al. (2010), Lambert et al. (2013), Bianucci et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016); to Ziphiidae by Bianucci (1997), Lambert (2005), Post et al. (2008), Cioppi (2014) and Berta (2017); and to Messapicetiformes by Bianucci et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Hyperoodontinae by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001) and Ramassamy (2016); to Ziphiinae by Bianucci et al. (2007), Bianucci et al. (2010), Lambert et al. (2013), Bianucci et al. (2013) and Marx et al. (2016); to Ziphiidae by Bianucci (1997), Lambert (2005), Post et al. (2008), Cioppi (2014) and Berta (2017); and to Messapicetiformes by Bianucci et al. (2024).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1997 | Tusciziphius Bianucci pp. 164-164 figs. 1-2 |
| 2001 | Tusciziphius Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2005 | Tusciziphius Lambert p. 446 |
| 2007 | Tusciziphius Bianucci et al. p. 570 |
| 2008 | Tusciziphius Post et al. p. 3 |
| 2010 | Tusciziphius Bianucci et al. p. 1093 figs. Figure 14 |
| 2013 | Tusciziphius Bianucci et al. p. 110 |
| 2013 | Tusciziphius Lambert et al. p. 588 figs. FIgure 14 |
| 2014 | Tusciziphius Cioppi p. 87 |
| 2016 | Tusciziphius Marx et al. p. 130 |
| 2016 | Tusciziphius Ramassamy p. 398 figs. Figure 17 |
| 2017 | Tusciziphius Berta p. 162 |
| 2024 | Tusciziphius Bianucci et al. p. 32 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Tusciziphius Bianucci 1997
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†Tusciziphius atlanticus Bianucci et al. 2013
†Tusciziphius crispus Bianucci 1997
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. Bianucci et al. 2013 | Tusciziphius differs from all other ziphiines except Imocetus n. gen. and Globicetus
n. gen. in having an extremely ossified trapezoidal vertex in which the anterior part of the nasals contact the premaxillary crests. It differs from Globicetus n. gen. and Imocetus n. gen. in the extreme widening and anterior projection of the right premaxillary crest, and in the lesser posterior constriction of the vertex; it further differs from Globicetus n. gen. in lacking a large spherical medial premaxillary rostral prominence; it further differs from Imocetus in lacking a wide facial depression, a rostral maxillary spur-shaped crest, and in having the premaxillary foramen not located posterior to the level of the antorbital notch. Among the other ziphiine genera it further differs from Ziphius and Izikoziphius in the medial fusion of the premaxillae closing the mesorostral groove; it further differs from the possible ziphiine Caviziphius in the shallower excavation of the premaxillary sac fossae. |
Measurements
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Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 20.44000 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene | Spain (Glacia) | T. atlanticus (80694) | |
| Burdigalian - Langhian | Spain | T. atlanticus (141840) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Spain | T. atlanticus (141838) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Portugal | T. atlanticus (141841) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | USA (South Carolina) | T. crispus (79743) | |
| Zanclean | Italy (Siena) | Choneziphius planirostris (45497) |