Kogia prisca Matsumoto 1926 (pygmy sperm whale)

Mammalia - Cetacea - Kogiidae

Full reference: H. Matsumoto. 1926. On some fossil cetaceans of Japan. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University Second Series (Geology) 10(1):17-27

Belongs to Kogia according to H. Matsumoto 1926

Sister taxa: Kogia breviceps, Kogia danomurai, Kogia pusilla, Kogia sima

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mito, Pliocene, which is in a Zanclean marine tuff in Japan

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Mito, Pliocene

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