Killer sperm whale:a new basal physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Late Miocene of Italy

• Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• Main Authors: BIANUCCI, GIOVANNI, LANDINI, WALTER
• Other Authors: Bianucci, Giovanni, Landini, Walter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Cetacea; Physeteroidea; Miocene; Italy; Fossa; Killer Whale; Orca; Orcinus orca; Sperm whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/205766; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00228.x

Zygophyseter varolai, a new genus and species of Physeteroidea (Cetacea, Odontoceti), is based on an almost complete skeleton from the Late Miocene (Tortonian) in southern Italy. The extreme elongation of the zygomatic process of the squamosal and the circular supracranial basin (probably for housin...