Ninoziphius
Appearance
Ninoziphius Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Ziphiidae |
Genus: | †Ninoziphius Muizon, 1983 |
Ninoziphius is a genus of extinct of beaked whale. Fossils have been found in the Eastern United States as well as in South America with specimens being found in the Pisco Formation.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Lambert, Olivier; De Muizon, Christian; Bianucci, Giovanni (April 2013). "The most basal beaked whale Ninoziphius platyrostris Muizon, 1983: clues on the evolutionary history of the family Ziphiidae (Cetacea: Odontoceti): The Archaic Beaked Whale Ninoziphius". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167 (4): 569–598. doi:10.1111/zoj.12018. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
- ^ "Ninoziphius Muizon 1983 (beaked whale)". PBDB Taxon. Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 31 August 2024.