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Specimen infos

Collection

Collection : Museo de Historia Natural - Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru

Inventory number : MUSM 978

Information

Sex : indet

Age group : Subadult

Age (if applicable) : Late Miocene

Material Type : Skull

Origin : Pisco Fm., Peru

Taxonomy

Class : Mammalia

Order : Artiodactyla

Family : Kogiidae

Genus : Scaphokogia

Species :✝cochlearis

Description

Small pygmy sperm whale (Kogiidae) from the late Miocene of Peru

Published online: 29/06/2022

Keywords: bite marks; cetaceans; predation; sharks; sperm whales

https://doi.org/10.18563/journal.m3.171

Cite this article: Aldo Benites-Palomino, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Ali Altamirano-Sierra, Alberto Collareta, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño and Mario Urbina, 2022. 3D model related to the publication: Sperm whales (Physeteroidea) from the Pisco Formation, Peru, and their trophic role as fat-sources for Late Miocene sharks. MorphoMuseuM 8:171. doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.171

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Published in Volume 08, issue 02 (2022)

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3D data

juvenile Scaphokogia cochlearis

Type: "3D_surfaces"

doi: 10.18563/m3.sf.977

Data citation: Aldo Benites-Palomino, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Ali Altamirano-Sierra, Alberto Collareta, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño and Mario Urbina, 2022. M3#977. doi: 10.18563/m3.sf.977

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