Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Full reference: L. Ginsburg and P. Janvier. 1975. Les mammiferes marins des faluns de la Touraine et de l'Anjou: faune, gisements et paleobiologie. Bulletin Society E. sci. Anjou, N. S. 9:73-96
Parent taxon: Monachinae according to A. Berta 2017
See also Ginsburg and Janvier 1975, Ginsburg and Janvier 1999, Koretsky and Domning 2014, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acrophoca, Afrophoca, Auroraphoca, Australophoca, Callophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mesotaria, Mirounga, Miroungini, Monachini, Monachus, Monotherium wymani, Neomonachus, Noriphoca, Ommatophoca, Paleophoca nystii, Piscophoca, Pliophoca, Pontophoca, Pristiphoca, Pristiphoca occitana, Sarcodectes, Seronectes, Terranectes, Terranectes magnus, Terranectes parvus, Virginiaphoca
Subtaxa: Palmidophoca callirhoe Palmidophoca chrysar
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of France (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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