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Bizarre fossil beaked whales (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula. <i>Geodiversitas 35(1)</i>: 105-153. <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2013n1a6\" target=\"_blank\">dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2013n1a6</a>","BEntID":223130,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":1,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":null,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Geodiversitas 35(1)</i>: 105-153. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2013n1a6\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2013n1a6</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Bianucci, G.; Mijan, I.; Lambert, O.; Post, K.; Mateus, O.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Bianucci, G. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Forty partial fossil skulls belonging to beaked whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) were collected by trawling and long-line fishing on Neogene (probably Late Early to Middle Miocene) layers of the Atlantic floor off the coasts of Portugal and Spain (Asturias and Galicia). The systematic study of the most diagnostic Iberian specimens, those preserving the rostrum and the dorsal part of the cranium, led to the recognition of two new genera (<i>Globicetus</i> n. gen. and <i>Imocetus</i> n. gen.) and four new species (<i>Choneziphius leidyi</i> n. sp., <i>G. hiberus</i> n. gen., n. sp., <i>I. piscatus</i> n. gen., n. sp., and <i>Tusciziphius atlanticus</i> n. sp.). Based on the matrix of a previous work, the phylogenetic analysis places all the new taxa in the subfamily Ziphiinae Gray, 1850. More fragmentary specimens are tentatively referred to the genera <i>Caviziphius</i> Bianucci & Post, 2005 and <i>Ziphirostrum</i> du Bus, 1868. Among these new ziphiids, extremely bizarre skull morphologies are observed. In <i>G. hiberus</i> n. gen., n. sp. the proximal portion of the rostrum bears a voluminous premaxillary spheroid. In <i>T. atlanticus</i> n. sp. a medial premaxillary bulge is present on the rostrum; together with asymmetric rostral maxillary eminences at the rostrum base, this bulge displays various degrees of elevation in different specimens, which may be interpreted as sexual dimorphism. Specimens of <i>I. piscatus</i> n. gen., n. sp. bear two sets of even crests: spur-like rostral maxillary crests and longitudinal maxillary crests laterally bordering a wide and long facial basin. A preliminary macroscopic observation of these elements indicates very dense bones, with a compactness comparable with that of cetacean ear bones. Questioning their function, the high medial rostral elements (the premaxillary spheroid of <i>G. hiberus</i> n. gen., n. sp. and the medial bulge of <i>T. atlanticus</i> n. sp.) remind the huge rostral maxillary crests of adult males of the extant <i>Hyperoodon ampullatus</i> (Forster, 1770). In the latter, the crests are very likely related to head-butting. However, they are made of much more spongy bone than in the fossil taxa studied here, and therefore possibly better mechanically suited for facing impacts. Other interpretations of these unusual bone specializations, related to deep-diving (ballast) and echolocation (sound reflection), fail to explain the diversity of shapes and the hypothetical sexual dimorphism observed in at least part of the taxa. The spur-like rostral maxillary crests and long maxillary crests limiting the large facial basin in <i>I. piscatus</i> n. gen., n. sp. and the excrescences on the maxilla at the rostrum base in <i>Choneziphius</i> spp. are instead interpreted as areas of origin for rostral and facial muscles, acting on the nasal passages, blowhole, and melon. From a palaeobiogeographic point of view, the newly described taxa further emphasize the differences in the North Atlantic (including Iberian Peninsula) and South African Neogene ziphiid faunal lists. Even if the stratigraphic context is poorly understood, leaving open the question of the geological age for most of the dredged specimens, these differences in the composition of cold to temperate northern and southern hemisphere fossil ziphiid faunas may be explained by a warm-water equatorial barrier.","AbstractOtherLang":null,"BibLvlCode":"AS","StandardTitle":"Bizarre fossil beaked whales (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) fished from the Atlantic Ocean floor off the Iberian Peninsula","OrigTitleLangCode":"en","OrigTitleLangCodeExtended":"eng","OrigTitleLangID":15,"DateLastModified":{"date":"2025-07-02 08:33:14.980000","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+00:00"},"UserAccessRight":null,"UserAccID":null,"AuthorKeywords":"Cetacea; Odontoceti; Ziphiidae; Neogene; Miocene; Portugal; Spain;phylogeny; skull morphology; new genera; new species","OtherDescriptors":null,"Notes":null,"AnaPub":2013,"MonPub":null,"DateUpdate":"2016-09-02","DateCreate":"2013-12-01","SecASFANote":null,"ConfID":null,"PeerRev":1,"VlizCoreFlag":1,"WoScode":"WOS:000317087600006","VABBcode":null,"OpenAcc":1,"DOI":"10.5252/g2013n1a6"},"refs":null,"anarec":{"AnaID":231418,"PubliDate":2013,"Pagination":"105-153","XtraPublOfAnaID":null,"ISBN":null,"Volume":"35","Issue":"1","BRefMon":null,"BRefMonRR":null,"BRefXtra":null,"BRefXtraRR":null,"SerBRefID":42902,"SerRR":"Geodiversitas. 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