MorphoMuseuM 3D object

M3#1928

Surface 3D (without textures) model of MUSM 972

Model solid/transparent

Specimen infos

Collection

Collection : Museo de Historia Natural - Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos (MUSM), Lima, Peru

Inventory number : MUSM 972

Information

Sex : indet

Age group : Adult

Age (if applicable) : Late Miocene

Material Type : Sub complete skull

Origin : Sacaco sub-basin, Pisco Fm.

Taxonomy

Class : Mammalia

Order : Artiodactyla

Family : Kogiidae

Genus : Scaphokogia

Species :✝huachafo

Description

The specimen here featured is the holotype of Scaphokogia huachafo sp. nov. featured in Benites-Palomino et al. It represents an adult specimen missing partly the left basicranium

M3#1928

3D model related to the publication: Extreme Cranial Asymmetry in Extinct Benthic Feeding Sperm Whales

Aldo M. Benites Palomino, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Florencia Paolucci, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Alberto Collareta, Apolline Alfsen, Alton Dooley, Dan Omura, Mario Urbina, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi and Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández