Incakujira
Name:
Incakujira.
Phonetic: In-cah-ku-je-rah.
Named By: F. G. Marx & N. Kohno -
2016.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Artiodactyla, Cetacea, Balaenopteridae.
Species: I. anillodefuego
(type).
Diet: Piscivore?
Size: At least 7 to 8 meters long.
Known locations: Peru - Pisco Formation.
Time period: Late Miocene.
Fossil representation: Skull and post cranial
skeleton.
Incakujira
is a genus of rorqual whale
known to have lived in the waters around
South America during the Miocene. As a filter feeder, Incakujira
probably filtered out small crustaceans such as krill from the sea
water as it swam.
Further reading
- A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert. - Royal
Society Open Science 3(10):160542. - F. G. Marx
& N. Kohno - 2016.
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