†Platysvercus ugonis Guo and Kohno 2023 (toothed whale)
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Mammalia - Cetacea - Lophocetidae
Full reference: Z. Guo and N. Kohno. 2023. An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography. PLoS One 18(2):e0280218
Belongs to Platysvercus according to Z. Guo and N. Kohno 2023
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UTHFM 00034, a skull. Its type locality is Tashiro, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in the Sugota Formation of Japan.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Tashiro
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