Idiorophus Explained

Idiorophus is a genus of extinct toothed whales in the family Physeteridae. Fossils have been found in the Colhuehuapian Gaiman Formation of Argentina and the Libano Sandstone in Italy.^[1]

The teeth of Idiorophus were similar in size to those of the modern orca.^[2]

Further reading

• R. Kellogg. 1925. Two physeteroid whales from California. Contributions to Palaeontology from the Carnegie Institution of Washington 348(1):1–35
• R. Lydekker. 1894. Cetacean skulls from Patagonia. Anales del Museo de la Plata II:1–13

Notes and References

1. Web site: Idiorophus at Fossilworks . live . 2021-12-17 . 2021-12-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211212222439/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=36732 .
2. Hampe . O. . 2006 . Middle/late Miocene hoplocetine sperm whale remains (Odontoceti: Physeteridae) of North Germany with an emended classification of the Hoplocetinae . Fossil Record . 9 . 1 . 61–86 . 2006FossR...9...61H . 10.1002/mmng.200600002 . free.