Brygmophyseter shigensis
(Redirected from Scaldicetus shigensis)
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Familia: Physeteridae
Genus: †Brygmophyseter
Species: †Brygmophyseter shigensis
Name[edit]
Brygmophyseter shigensis (Hirota & Barnes, 1994)
Type locality: "bed of the Hofuku-ji River, Matsumoto (formerly Shiga-mura, Higashi-chikuma Gun), Nagano Prefecture, Japan". [Kimura, Hasegawa & Barnes, 2006: 6]
Holotype: SFM 00001
Synonyms[edit]
- Brygmophyseter shigensis Kimura, Hasegawa & Barnes, 2006: 6
- Naganocetus shigensis Bianucci & Landini, 2006: 104, 105
- Scaldicetus shigensis Hirota & Barnes, 1994 (protonym)
References[edit]
Primary references[edit]
- Hirota, K. & Barnes, L.G. 1994 [1995]. A new species of Middle Miocene sperm whale of the genus Scaldicetus (Cetacea; Physeteridae) from Shiga-mura, Japan. Island Arc 3(4): 453–472. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00125.x Reference page.
- Kimura, T., Hasegawa, Y. & Barnes, L.G. 2006. Fossil sperm whales (Cetacea, Physeteridae) from Gunma and Ibaraki prefectures, Japan; with observations on the Miocene fossil sperm whale Scaldicetus shigensis Hirota & Barnes, 1995. Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History 10: 1–23. PDF PDF Reference page.
- Bianucci, G.; Landini, W. 2006: Killer sperm whale: a new basal physeteroid (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Late Miocene of Italy. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 148: 103–131. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00228.x
Links[edit]
- Brygmophyseter shigensis – Taxon details on Fossilworks.
Vernacular names[edit]
日本語: シガマッコウクジラ