A new physeteroid from the late Miocene of Peru expands the diversity of extinct dwarf and pygmy sperm whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae)
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...
Published in: | Comptes Rendus Palevol |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2020
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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 |