Aprixokogia
| Aprixokogia Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Kogiidae |
| Genus: | †Aprixokogia Whitmore & Kaltenbach, 2008 |
| Species: | †A. kelloggi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Aprixokogia kelloggi Whitmore & Kaltenbach, 2008
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Aprixokogia is an extinct genus of cetacean in the family Kogiidae that lived during the Pliocene in what is now the Yorktown Formation of 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]
Characteristics
Aprixokogia skulls, unlike other kogiids, taper distally to a rounded end of the rostrum. The supracranial fossa extends further back along the dorsal line than other fossilized kogiids.[3] The stem Aprixokogia did not include any fossilized periotic bones, which has limited further research on the genus.[4]
References
- ^ "Fossilworks: Aprixokogia".
- ^ "Fossilworks: Lee Creek Mine". Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.
- ^ Velez-Juarbe, Jorge; Wood, Aaron; De Gracia, Carlos; Hendy, Austin (April 29, 2015). "Evolutionary Patterns among Living and Fossil Kogiid Sperm Whales: Evidence from the Neogene of Central America". PLOS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123909. PMC 4414568. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
- ^ Velez-Juarbe, Jorge; Wood, Aaron; Pimiento, Catalina (2016). "PYGMY SPERM WHALES (ODONTOCETI, KOGIIDAE) FROM THE PLIOCENE OF FLORIDA AND NORTH CAROLINA" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.