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Taxonomy
Belemnoziphius was named by Huxley (1864) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-u]. It was considered monophyletic by Uhen et al. (2008).
It was synonymized subjectively with Mesoplodon by Lydekker (1887), Hay (1902) and Zittel (1925); it was synonymized subjectively with Choneziphius by Abel (1905); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); it was considered a nomen dubium by Uhen and Pyenson (2007).
It was assigned to Ziphiinae by Hay (1930); to Hyperoodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ziphiidae by Gill (1872), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Mead (1975), Carroll (1988), Lambert (2005), Uhen et al. (2008) and Berta (2017).
It was synonymized subjectively with Mesoplodon by Lydekker (1887), Hay (1902) and Zittel (1925); it was synonymized subjectively with Choneziphius by Abel (1905); it was considered a nomen dubium by Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); it was considered a nomen dubium by Uhen and Pyenson (2007).
It was assigned to Ziphiinae by Hay (1930); to Hyperoodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Cetacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Ziphiidae by Gill (1872), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Mead (1975), Carroll (1988), Lambert (2005), Uhen et al. (2008) and Berta (2017).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1864 | Belemnoziphius Huxley p. 392 figs. Plate 19 |
| 1872 | Belemnoziphius Gill p. 96 |
| 1928 | Belemnoziphius Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1 |
| 1930 | Belemnoziphius Hay p. 583 |
| 1945 | Belemnoziphius Simpson p. 101 |
| 1975 | Belemnoziphius Mead p. 750 figs. Table 1 |
| 1988 | Belemnoziphius Carroll |
| 1997 | Belemnoziphius McKenna and Bell p. 381 |
| 2002 | Belemnoziphius Sepkoski |
| 2005 | Belemnoziphius Lambert p. 446 |
| 2008 | Belemnoziphius Uhen et al. p. 578 |
| 2017 | Belemnoziphius Berta p. 162 |
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G. †Belemnoziphius Huxley 1864
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†Belemnoziphius compressus Huxley 1864
†Belemnoziphius prorops Leidy 1876
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. D. Uhen et al. 2008 | The vomer occupies fully a third of the width of the upper face of the rostrum; and in the few instances in which the extremity of the rostrum is complete, it is not bifid, but sharply pointed, almost like the end of the guard of a belemnite, the vomer and premaxillae seeming to coalesce into one solid terminal cone (Huxley, 1864). |
Measurements
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Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene - Late/Upper Pliocene | Belgium (Antwerpen) | B. compressus (47465) | |
| Zanclean | USA (South Carolina) | B. prorops (123227) | |
| Piacenzian | United Kingdom (England) | B. compressus (85154) | |
| Gelasian | United Kingdom (England) | Mesoplodon compressus (48093) |