Physeterula

Physeterula
Temporal range:
Fragmentary Physeterula tooth from the Bone Valley Formation
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Infraorder: Cetacea
Family: Physeteridae
Subfamily: Physeterinae
Genus: †Physeterula
Van Beneden, 1877
Type species
†Physeterula dubusi
Other species

†P. neolassicus Veatch and Stephenson, 1911

Physeterula was a prehistoric close relative of the sperm whale that lived in Europe and the United States during the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene. It is similar in size to Idiorophus, Zygophyseter and Brygmophyseter.

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