Aprixokogia Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008 (pygmy sperm whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kogiidae

Full reference: F. C. Whitmore and J. A. Kaltenbach. 2008. Neogene Cetacea of the Lee Creek Phosphate Mine, North Carolina. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:181-269

Parent taxon: Kogiidae according to A. Collareta et al. 2017

See also Berta 2017, Marx et al. 2016, Velez-Juarbe et al. 2015 and Whitmore and Kaltenbach 2008

Sister taxa: Kogiinae, Scaphokogiinae

Subtaxa: Aprixokogia kelloggi

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Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation (Pliocene of North Carolina)

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