Pliokogia
Pliokogia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | Kogiidae |
Genus: | †Pliokogia Collareta et al., 2019 |
Species: | †P. appenninica |
Binomial name | |
†Pliokogia appenninica Collareta et al., 2019 |
Pliokogia is extinct genus of pygmy sperm whale from the Pliocene period. The fossil is constituted of an incomplete skull. The only species in the genus is Pliokogia appenninica.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Giovanni Bianucci, Collareta (June 4, 2019). "A new kogiid sperm whale from northern Italy supports psychrospheric conditions in the early Pliocene Mediterranean Sea". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 64 (3): 609–626. doi:10.4202/app.00578.2018. hdl:11568/1000367. Retrieved October 10, 2024.