A kogiid sperm whale from the lower Pliocene of the Northern Apennines (Italy)

Alberto Collareta¹, Franco Cigala Fulgosi² & Giovanni Bianucci¹

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, via Santa Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy; alberto.collareta@unipi.it;
A. Collareta: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6513-8882;
G. Bianucci: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7105-0863;
² Strada Martinella 292, 43124 Parma, Italy

How to cite: Collareta et al. (2018). A kogiid sperm whale from the lower Pliocene of the Northern Apennines (Italy). Fossilia, Volume 2018: 13-14. https://doi.org/10.32774/FosRepPal.20.1810.031314

• We report on a new specimen of Kogiidae from S. Andrea Bagni, a Zanclean fossiliferous site of northern Italy.
• This specimen consists of a partially complete cranium, one vertebra, one fragment of rib, and one tooth.
• The S. Andrea Bagni kogiid is recognized as representative of a new taxon in the subfamily Kogiinae.
• Association of this specimen with teeth of deep-water squaloids provides interesting palaeoecological hints.
  

Keywords: Adriatic palaeo-area; Mediterranean Basin; Physeteroidea; palaeoecology; psychrosphere.

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