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, MUIZON, Christian de, BENITES PALOMINO, Aldo Marcelo, URBINA, Mario, BIANUCCI, Giovanni
• Other Authors: Collareta, Alberto, Lambert, Olivier, Muizon, Christian de, Urbina, Mario, Bianucci, Giovanni
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Scaphokogiinae; Pisco Formation; East Pisco Basin; Messinian; new genus; new species; Pacific; Pisco; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/1070698; https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2020v19a5; https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/19/5

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. The fossil record of...