Choneziphius

Choneziphius
Temporal range:
Choneziphius planirostris fossils
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Family: Ziphiidae
Genus: †
Duvernoy, 1851
Species
  • †C. planirostris (Cuvier, 1824) [originally Ziphius] (type)
  • †C. leidyi Bianucci, Miján, Lambert, Post, and Mateus, 2013
Synonyms

Proroziphius Leidy, 1876

Skull

Choneziphius is an extinct genus of ziphiidae cetaceans, with two species known from the Miocene: C. planirostris and C. leidyi.[1][2] Known from the shore of Belgium, Portugal and Spain.

References

  1. ^ Lambert, O. (2005). Systematics and phylogeny of the fossil beaked whales Ziphirostrum du Bus, 1868 and Choneziphius Duvernoy, 1851 (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti), from the Neogene of Antwerp (North of Belgium) Geodiversitas 27(3): 443-497
  2. ^ Bianucci G., Miján I, Lambert O., Post K. & Mateus O. 2013. — Bizarre fossil beaked whales(Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula. Geodiversitas 35 (1): 105-153.


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