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:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | †Lophocetidae |
Genus: | †Platysvercus Guo and Kohno, 2023 |
Species: | †P. ugonis
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Binomial name | |
†Platysvercus ugonis Guo and Kohno, 2023
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References
edit- ^ 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.