Erratum: The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru

Authors :: Lambert, Olivier
Bianucci, Giovanni
Post, Klaas
de Muizon, Christian
Salas-Gismondi, Rodolfo
Urbina, Mario
Reumer, Jelle
Source :: Nature. August 2010, Vol. 466 Issue 7310, p1134, 1 p.
Publication Year :: 2010
Abstract: Author(s): Olivier Lambert, Giovanni Bianucci, Klaas Post, Christian de Muizon, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, Mario Urbina, Jelle Reumer Author Affiliations: Nature 466 , 105-108 (2010) The genus name Leviathan , proposed in [...]<br />Nature 466, 105-108 (2010) The genus name Leviathan, proposed in this Letter for a new fossil physeteroid from the Miocene of Peru, is preoccupied by Leviathan Koch, 1841 (ref. 1), a junior subjective synonym of Mammut Blumenbach, 1799 (ref. 2). We propose here a replacement name Livyatan gen. nov. The type species is placed in this genus to form the binomial Livyatan melvillei.

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