Platysvercus
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| Platysvercus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Infraorder: | Cetacea |
| Family: | †Lophocetidae |
| Genus: | †Platysvercus Guo and Kohno, 2023 |
| Species: | †P. ugonis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Platysvercus ugonis Guo and Kohno, 2023 | |
Platysvercus is an extinct genus of kentriodontid that inhabited the seas around what is now Japan during the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene epoch. It is a monotypic genus known from a single species, Platysvercus ugonis.[1]
