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

• Main Authors: Collareta, Alberto, Lambert, Olivier, de Muizon, Christian, Benites Palomino, Aldo Marcelo, Urbina, Mario, Bianucci, Giovanni
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Department of Paleontology; 560 Fossils & prehistoric life; Pacific; Pisco; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/190655/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/190655/1/comptes-rendus-palevol2020v19a5-pdfa.pdf; http://cr-palevol.fr/19/5; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-190655; https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2020v19a5

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...