Pliokogia

Pliokogia
Temporal range: Early Pliocene
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Scientific classification Edit this 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

  1. ^ 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.


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