Aprixokogia

Aprixokogia
Temporal range: Zanclean
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Suborder: Whippomorpha
Infraorder: Cetacea
Parvorder: Odontoceti
Family: Kogiidae
Subfamily: Kogiinae
Genus: †

Aprixokogia is an extinct genus of cetacean in the family Kogiidae that lived during the Pliocene in what is now North Carolina. [1] It shared its habitat with ancestors of the modern pilot whale and pygmy right whale, as well as sea turtles and Pelagornis.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Aprixokogia".
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Lee Creek Mine". Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.


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