A new physeteroid from the late Miocene of Peru expands the diversity of extinct dwarf and pygmy sperm whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae)

• Published in: Comptes Rendus Palevol
• Main Authors: Collareta, Alberto, Lambert, Olivier, De Muizon, Christian, BENITES PALOMINO, Aldo Marcelo, Urbina, Mario, Bianucci, Giovanni
• Other Authors: Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris (CR2P), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology; Pacific; Pisco; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03424211; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03424211/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03424211/file/206-2020%20collareta%20et%20al.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2020v19a5

International audience Nowadays, the odontocete family Kogiidae is monotypic and only includes two species of diminutive relatives of the great sperm whale Physeter Linnaeus, 1758. Conversely, a growing body of extinct species indicates that kogiids were diverse and disparate during the late Neogene...