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Extinct genus of mammals

Platysvercus
Temporal range: Burdigalian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Lophocetidae
Genus: Platysvercus
Guo and Kohno, 2023
Species: P. ugonis
Binomial name
Platysvercus ugonis
Guo and Kohno, 2023

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.

References

  1. 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.
Taxon identifiers
Platysvercus


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