Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae
Alternative combinations: Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus) fischeri, Arctophoca fischeri
Full reference: P. Gervais and F. Ameghino. 1880. Les Mammifres Fossiles: de L'Amrique Du Sud 1-255
Belongs to Arctocephalus according to R. Kellogg 1922
Sister taxa: Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus), Arctocephalus (Callotaria), Arctocephalus australis, Arctocephalus californianus, Arctocephalus doriferus, Arctocephalus elegans, Arctocephalus falklandicus, Arctocephalus forsteri, Arctocephalus forsteri, Arctocephalus galapagoensis, Arctocephalus gazella, Arctocephalus nigriscens, Arctocephalus nivosus, Arctocephalus philippi, Arctocephalus philippii, Arctocephalus pusillus, Arctocephalus tasmanica, Arctocephalus townsendi, Arctocephalus tropicalis, Halarctus delalandii
Type specimen: Its type locality is Barrancas del Rio Parana, which is in a Tortonian marginal marine siltstone/sandstone in the Entre Rios Formation of Argentina
Ecology: amphibious piscivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Arctocephalus fischeri in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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