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Physeteroidea is a superfamily that includes three extant species of whales: the sperm whale, in the genus Physeter, and the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale, in the genus Kogia.
Articles relating to the Physeteroidea, a superfamily that includes three extant species of whales: the sperm whale, in the genus Physeter, and the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale, in the genus Kogia. Additional fossil representatives of both families are known.
Zygophyseter was discovered in the Pietra Leccese Formation in Italy from a skull, teeth, and vertebrae; [2] Brygmophyseter was discovered in the Bessho Formation in Japan from a nearly-complete skeleton; [3] and Acrophyseter and Livyatan both originate from the Pisco Formation in Peru and are known by only a skull. [4]
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Miophyseter is an extinct genus of sperm whale in the superfamily Physeteroidea.It includes only one species, M. chitaensis, that was described in 2022 from the lower Miocene (Burdigalian) of Toyohama Formation, Chita District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
Zygophyseter varolai is an extinct sperm whale that lived during the Tortonian age of the Late Miocene 11.2 to 7.6 million years ago. It is known from a single specimen from the Pietra Leccese Formation in Italy.
Diaphorocetus is an extinct genus of odontocete cetacean belonging to Physeteroidea. Its remains were found in the Monte León Formation of Argentina , dating to the Early Miocene . [ 1 ]