Platysvercus is an extinct genus of kentriodontid that inhabited the seas around what is now Japan during the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene epoch. It is a monotypic genus known from a single species, Platysvercus ugonis.[1]

Platysvercus
Temporal range: Burdigalian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Lophocetidae
Genus: Platysvercus
Guo and Kohno, 2023
Species:
P. ugonis
Binomial name
Platysvercus ugonis
Guo and Kohno, 2023

References

edit
  1. ^ Guo, Zixuan; Kohno, Naoki (15 February 2023). Pandolfi, Luca (ed.). "An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography". PLOS ONE. 18 (2): e0280218. Bibcode:2023PLoSO..1880218G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0280218. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 9931143. PMID 36791148.