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| Chimuziphius Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Suborder: | Whippomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Ziphiidae |
| Genus: | †Chimuziphius |
| Species: | †C. coloradensis
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| †Chimuziphius coloradensis Bianucci et. al., 2016
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Chimuziphius is an extinct genus of ziphiid that lived during the Tortonian stage of the Miocene epoch.
Distribution
Chimuziphius coloradensis is known from the Pisco Formation of Peru.[1]
References
- ^ Bianucci, Giovanni; Celma, Claudio Di; Urbina, Mario; Lambert, Olivier (20 September 2016). "New beaked whales from the late Miocene of Peru and evidence for convergent evolution in stem and crown Ziphiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti)". PeerJ. 4: e2479. doi:10.7717/peerj.2479. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5036081. PMID 27688973.