Platysvercus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Infraorder: | Cetacea |
Family: | †Lophocetidae |
Genus: | †Platysvercus Guo and Kohno, 2023 |
Species: | †P. ugonis
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Binomial name | |
†Platysvercus ugonis Guo and Kohno, 2023
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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.[1]