Pterocetus, Bianucci & Lambert & Post, 2007

Bianucci, Giovanni, Lambert, Olivier & Post, Klaas, 2007, A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa, Geodiversitas 29 (4), pp. 561-618 : 595

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4651080
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FA38C827-6C5F-4B70-B306-F30C90801A2F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4650959
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/14ECF29B-C005-49BC-AC65-8FA215E3C6CA
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:14ECF29B-C005-49BC-AC65-8FA215E3C6CA
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pterocetus
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Genus Pterocetus n. gen.

TYPE SPECIES. — Pterocetus benguelae n. gen., n. sp., by present designation.

ETYMOLOGY. — From Ancient Greek “pteryx”, wing, for the large wing-like preorbital processes and from Latin “cetus”, whale. Gender masculine.

DIAGNOSIS. — Same as for the species.

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Ziphiidae

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