Caviziphius
Caviziphius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Ziphiidae |
Subfamily: | Hyperoodontinae |
Genus: | †Caviziphius Bianucci & Post, 2005 |
Caviziphius is a fossil genus of ziphiid or beaked whale[1] from the Miocene of Belgium, Spain and Portugal.[2] The type species is Caviziphius altirostris.
References[]
- ^ Lambert, Olivier; Bianucci, Giovanni; Post, Klaas (2009-09-12). "A new beaked whale (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from the middle Miocene of Peru". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (3): 910–922. doi:10.1671/039.029.0304. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ^ Bianucci, Giovanni; Miján, Ismael; Lambert, Olivier; Post, Klaas; Mateus, Octávio (March 2013). "Bizarre fossil beaked whales (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula". Geodiversitas. 35 (1): 105–153. doi:10.5252/g2013n1a6. ISSN 1280-9659.
Categories:
- Ziphiids
- Prehistoric cetacean genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1997
- Miocene cetaceans
- Fossils of Spain
- Pliocene cetaceans