Platyscaphokogia

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Platyscaphokogia is an extinct genus of pygmy sperm whale that lived in Peru during the Late Miocene. ^[1]

Description[]

Platyscaphokogia is known from two skull specimens, which have a number of aspects similar and distinct from related genera. Platyscaphokogia was likely an active carnivore, had the built for a predatory life within the water column of relatively open environments. ^[2]

Reference[]

[1] ttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/344474760_A_new_physeteroid_from_the_late_Miocene_of_Peru_expands_the_diversity_of_extinct_dwarf_and_pygmy_sperm_whales_Cetacea_Odontoceti_Kogiidae

[2] ttp://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/comptes-rendus-palevol/19/5

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