Pliokogia, Collareta, Cigala Fulgosi & Bianucci, 2019

Collareta, Alberto, Fulgosi, Franco Cigala & Bianucci, Giovanni, 2019, A new kogiid sperm whale from northern Italy supports psychrospheric conditions in the early Pliocene Mediterranean Sea, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (3), pp. 609-626 : 612

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00578.2018

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D41EA0A5-E65D-48CB-AB8F-0EE1725247EC

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A60C204C-B11F-FFC6-F467-FF3DF99CFDAE

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scientific name

Pliokogia
status

 

Genus Pliokogia nov.

ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1DEA564E-280B-4E35-A193-655DCE48CE61

Type and only known species: Pliokogia apenninica sp. nov.

Etymology: From the combination of Pliocene, in reference to the geological age of the holotype, and Kogia , generic name of the extant members of Kogiidae . Gender feminine.

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

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Early Pliocene (5.08– 5.04 Ma, early Zanclean; see above for more details) of northern Italy (palaeo-Adriatic area).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Kogiidae

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