Published December 31, 2007
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Pterocetus Bianucci & Lambert & Post 2007, n. gen.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, via S. Maria, 53, I- 56126 Pisa (Italy) bianucci @ dst. unipi. it
- 2. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Département de Paléontologie, rue Vautier, 29, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium) olivier. lambert @ naturalsciences. be
- 3. Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, P. O. Box 23452, NL- 3001 Rotterdam (The Netherlands) klaas @ fiskano. nl
Description
Genus Pterocetus n. gen.
TYPE SPECIES. — Pterocetus benguelae n. gen., n. sp., by present designation.
ETYMOLOGY. — From Ancient Greek “pteryx”, wing, for the large wing-like preorbital processes and from Latin “cetus”, whale. Gender masculine.
DIAGNOSIS. — Same as for the species.
Notes
Published as part of Bianucci, Giovanni, Lambert, Olivier & Post, Klaas, 2007, A high diversity in fossil beaked whales (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) recovered by trawling from the sea floor off South Africa, pp. 561-618 in Geodiversitas 29 (4) on page 595, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4651080
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Additional details
Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.4651080 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A932FFBBC17EFFA5FFC47277FFBE056E (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/FA38C827-6C5F-4B70-B306-F30C90801A2F (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/550B87C3C15CFF87FF3E7165FE4D017A (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bianucci & Lambert & Post
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Cetacea
- Family
- Ziphiidae
- Genus
- Pterocetus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pterocetus Bianucci, Lambert & Post, 2007