Choneziphius

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

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

Proroziphius Leidy, 1876

Skull

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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