Xiphiacetus is an extinct genus of cetacean known from the Miocene (early Burdigalian to late Tortonian, of Europe and the U.S. East Coast.
Xiphiacetus is an extinct genus of cetacean known from the Miocene (early Burdigalian to late Tortonian, of Europe and the U.S. East Coast.
== Taxonomy and Naming == described Priscodelphinus cristatus based on partial and poorly preserved skulls with extremely long and narrow rostra with a huge number of densely packed teeth. He estimated the rostrum of a large specimen to be long and the cranium to be long and slightly wider. He also found a series of well-preserved cervicals and a few of the anterior-most thoracics.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).