Pliokogia is extinct genus of pygmy sperm whale from the Pliocene period. The fossil is constituted of an incomplete skull. The only species in the genus is Pliokogia appenninica.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | Kogiidae |
| Genus: | †Pliokogia Collareta et al., 2019 |
| Species: | †P. appenninica
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| †Pliokogia appenninica Collareta et al., 2019
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References
edit- ^ Giovanni Bianucci, Collareta (June 4, 2019). "A new kogiid sperm whale from northern Italy supports psychrospheric conditions in the early Pliocene Mediterranean Sea". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 64 (3): 609–626. doi:10.4202/app.00578.2018. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
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