Platyscaphokogia, Collareta & Lambert & Palomino & Urbina & Bianucci, 2020

COLLARETA, Alberto, LAMBERT, Olivier, MUIZON, Christian de, BENITES PALOMINO, Aldo Marcelo, URBINA, Mario & BIANUCCI, Giovanni, 2020, A new physeteroid from the late Miocene of Peru expands the diversity of extinct dwarf and pygmy sperm whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae), Comptes Rendus Palevol 19 (5), pp. 79-100 : 83

Platyscaphokogia n. gen.

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ETYMOLOGY. — From the combination of the Ancient Greek adjective “platús” (πλατύς), meaning “flat”, with “ Scaphokogia ”, i.e., the name of the type genus of Scaphokogiinae , for highlighting the dorsoventrally flattened morphology of the rostrum of the new form. Gender feminine.

TYPE AND ONLY KNOWN SPECIES. — Platyscaphokogia landinii n. gen., n. sp.

DIAGNOSIS. — Same as for the type species until other species are described.

KNOWN RANGE. — Late Miocene (Messinian) of southern Peru.