A new kogiid sperm whale from northern Italy supports psychrospheric conditions in the early Pliocene Mediterranean Sea

• Published in: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Main Authors: Alberto Collareta, Franco Cigala Fulgosi, Giovanni Bianucci
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Paleobiology PAS 2019
• Subjects: Mammalia; Cetacea; Odontoceti; Physeteroidea; Kogiinae; oceanisation; Pliocene; Northern Apennines; Fossil man. Human paleontology; GN282-286.7; Paleontology; QE701-760; Fossa; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00578.2018; https://doaj.org/article/8ec79bc5d3dc416f9b42882ae3511e0b

Among living cetaceans, dwarf and pygmy sperm whales (Kogia) are the only members of the family Kogiidae, regarded as diminutive and elusive relatives of the great sperm whale Physeter. Kogiids are known as fossils by several skulls, teeth, and ear bones from Neogene deposits of the Northern Hemisph...