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Ziphiinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63535	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63535

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Ziphiidae : Ziphiinae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Cetacea	Brisson 1762
-	Pelagiceti	Uhen 2008
-	Neoceti	Fordyce and de Muizon 2001
suborder	Odontoceti	Flower 1867
-	Synrhina	Geisler et al. 2011
family	Ziphiidae	Gray 1850
subfamily	Ziphiinae	Gray 1850

Common Name

beaked whale

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ziphiinae	subfamily	belongs to Hypognathodontidae	stated without evidence	Brandt, 1874
Ziphiinae	subfamily	belongs to Physeteridae	stated without evidence	Flores, 1895
Ziphiinae	subfamily	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1930
Ziphiinae	subfamily	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated with evidence	Bianucci et al., 2007
Ziphiinae	subfamily	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Bianucci and Landini, 2007
Ziphiinae	subfamily	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated with evidence	Marx et al., 2016
Ziphiinae	subfamily	belongs to Ziphiidae	stated without evidence	Lambert and Louwye, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (20%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine,freshwater (based on Odontoceti)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cetacea)

Diet

piscivore, carnivore (based on Ziphiidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Odontoceti)

Ontogeny

modification of parts (based on Cetacea)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite (based on Odontoceti)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. E. Gray. 1850. Catalogue of the Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of all the species and figures of the genera. Part I. Cetacea

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Berardini tribe	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Cetorhynchus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Choneziphius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	18	23.0 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Izikoziphius ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	16.0 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Nazcacetus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	7.25 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Ziphius genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	24	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1850	Ziphiinae Gray p. 241
1874	Ziphiinae Brandt p. II
1895	Ziphiinae Flores p. 13
1902	Ziphiinae Hay p. 596
1904	Ziphiinae Trouessart p. 775
1912	Ziphiinae Turner p. 76
1925	Ziphiinae Zittel p. 86
1928	Ziphiinae Weber p. 389
1930	Ziphiinae Hay p. 582

Year	Name and Author
2007	Ziphiinae Bianucci et al. p. 570
2007	Ziphiinae Bianucci and Landini p. 45 figs. Table 2.1
2008	Ziphiinae Foekens p. 7 figs. Table 1
2009	Ziphiinae Lambert et al. p. 919 figs. Fig. 10
2013	Ziphiinae Bianucci et al. p. 110
2016	Ziphiinae Lambert and Louwye figs. Figure 3
2016	Ziphiinae Marx et al. p. 130
2018	Ziphiinae Lambert et al. p. 149

References

Gray J. E. , Catalogue of the Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum, with descriptions of all the species and figures of the genera. Part I. Cetacea, 1-153

Brandt J. F. Ergänzungen zu den Fossilen Cetaceen Europa's, Mémoires de L'Academie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, VIIE Série 21 6, 1-54

Flores E. Catalogo dei mammiferi fossili dell' Italia meridionale continentale, Atti della Acccademia pontaniana 25 18, 3-48

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929

Hay O. P. (1930) Second Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington 390 II, 1-1074

Bianucci G., Lambert O., et al (2007) A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa, Geodiversitas 29 4, 561-618

Foekens R. (2008) Fossiele gehoorbeentjes van walvissen uit Mill, Noord-Brabant, Cranium 25, 5-20

Lambert O., et al (2009) A new beaked whale (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from the middle Miocene of Peru, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 3, 910-922

Bianucci G., Miján I., et al (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

Lambert O., Louwye S. (2016) A new early Pliocene species of Mesoplodon: a calibration mark for the radiation of this species- rich beaked whale genus, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1055754 doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1055754

Marx F. G., Lambert O., et al (2016) Cetacean Paleobiology, 1-319

Lambert O., de Muizon C., et al (2018) Neogene and Quaternary fossil remains of beaked whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from deep-sea deposits off Crozet and Kerguelen islands, Southern Ocean, Geodiversitas 40 6, 135-160 doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a6

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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