A new Beneziphius beaked whale from the ocean floor off Galicia, Spain and biostratigraphic reassessment of the type species

• Published in: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Main Authors: Miján, Ismael, Louwye, Stephen, Lambert, Olivier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biology and Life Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Mammalia; Cetacea; Ziphiidae; Miocene; North Atlantic; North Sea; Iberian Peninsula; LATE MIOCENE; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; CETACEA ODONTOCETI; ZIPHIIDAE CETACEA; MIDDLE MIOCENE; EVOLUTION; NORTH; BASIN; FORAMINIFERA; MORPHOLOGY; Fossa
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8538184; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8538184; https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00309.2016; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8538184/file/8538198

Although the fossil record of beaked whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) is continuously improving, the geological age of new taxa is often poorly constrained. Based on a partial cranium from deep seafloor deposits off Galicia, Spain, we describe a new species of the stem beaked whale genus Bene...