Chavinziphius is an extinct genus of ziphiid cetacean known from Messinian age marine deposits in the Pisco Formation in Peru. There is only one known species, Chavinziphius maxillocristatus.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Ziphiidae |
| Genus: | †Chavinziphius Bianucci, 2016 |
| Species: | †C. maxillocristatus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Chavinziphius maxillocristatus Bianucci, 2016
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References
edit- ^ Bianucci, Giovanni; Celma, Claudio Di; Urbina, Mario; Lambert, Olivier (2016-09-20). "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.
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