Platysvercus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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| fossil_range = {{Geological age|Burdigalian}}

| genus = Platysvercus

| parent_authority = Guo and Kohno, 2023

| species = ugonis

| authority = Guo and Kohno, 2023

}}

Platysvercus is an extinct genus of kentriodontid that inhabited the seas around what is now Japan during the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene epoch. It is a monotypic genus known from a single species, Platysvercus ugonis.{{Cite journal |last1=Guo |first1=Zixuan |last2=Kohno |first2=Naoki |date=15 February 2023 |editor-last=Pandolfi |editor-first=Luca |title=An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=e0280218 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0280218 |doi-access=free |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=9931143 |pmid=36791148 |bibcode=2023PLoSO..1880218G }}