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    Macroraptorial sperm whales were highly predatory whales of the sperm whale superfamily (Physeteroidea) of the Miocene epoch that hunted large marine...
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    Livyatan is an extinct genus of macroraptorial sperm whale containing one known species: L. melvillei. The genus name was inspired by the biblical sea...
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    the upper and lower jaws. Brygmophyseter is part of a group of macroraptorial sperm whales (often shortened to "raptorial") which tended to be apex predators...
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    Formation in Italy. It was a member of a stem group of fossil macroraptorial sperm whales (often shortened to "raptorial") also including Brygmophyseter...
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    competition from whale-eating cetaceans, such as Livyatan and other macroraptorial sperm whales and possibly smaller ancestral killer whales (Orcinus). As...
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    Scaldicetus (category Sperm whales)
    Scaldicetus is an extinct genus of highly predatory macroraptorial sperm whale. Although widely used for a number of extinct physeterids with primitive...
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    Acrophyseter (category Sperm whales)
    species: A. deinodon and A. robustus. It is part of a group of macroraptorial sperm whales which all shared several features for the purpose of hunting...
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    off the coast. They were probably preyed upon by sharks and macroraptorial sperm whales such as Acrophyseter. Thalassocnus were found in formations with...
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    killer sperm whales or macroraptorial sperm whales. Beaked whales consist of over 20 genera. Earlier variety were probably preyed upon by killer sperm whales...
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  • Idiophyseter (category Sperm whales)
    Idiophyseter is a genus of macroraptorial sperm whale from the Miocene. Its fossils have been found in Templeton California. Idiophyseter was small in...
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    Albicetus (category Sperm whales)
    both jaws. This suggests that it is related to the group of macroraptorial sperm whales which includes Acrophyseter, Brygmophyseter, Livyatan, and Zygophyseter...
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  • Hoplocetus (category Sperm whales)
    those of modern orcas but considerably smaller than those of macroraptorial sperm whales, such as Zygophyseter, as well as those of Scaldicetus caretti...
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  • "Biting in the Miocene seas: estimation of the bite force of the macroraptorial sperm whale Zygophyseter varolai using finite element analysis". Historical...
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    Ankylorhiza (category Prehistoric toothed whales)
    its niche was probably reoccupied successively by Squalodon, macroraptorial sperm whales, and extant orcas. Boessenecker, Robert W.; Churchill, Morgan;...
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  • Miophyseter (category Sperm whales)
    group, but more closely related to the crown group than to the macroraptorial sperm whales known from middle and late Miocene. Miophyster may have had an...
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  • Olivier Lambert; Giovanni Bianucci; Christian De Muizon (2016). "Macroraptorial sperm whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Peru"...
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  • Collareta; Franco Cigala Fulgosi; Giovanni Bianucci (2019). "A new kogiid sperm whale from northern Italy supports psychrospheric conditions in the early Pliocene...
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