Subfamily Monachinae Trouessart 1897 (seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: E. L. Trouessart. 1897. Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilium. Fassiculus I-II I-II

Parent taxon: Phocidae according to L. Dewaele et al. 2018

See also Adam 2004, Albright et al. 2019, Amson and Muizon 2013, Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Berta et al. 2015, Bianucci et al. 2011, Boessenecker and Churchill 2016, Burns and Fay 1970, Davis et al. 2004, Deméré et al. 2003, Dewaele and Lambert 2018, Dewaele et al. 2018, Friant 1947, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Ginsburg and Janvier 1971, Ginsburg and Janvier 1999, Govender 2018, Hafed et al. 2024, Hafed et al. 2023, Hafed et al. 2021, Hendey 1974, Kellogg 1922, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 1991, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Barnes 2008, Koretsky and Domning 2014, Koretsky and Grigorescu 2002, Koretsky and Holec 2002, Koretsky et al. 2014, Koretsky and Ray 2008, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Ling and Bryden 1992, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982, Muizon and Bond 1982, Muizon and Hendey 1980, Rahmat et al. 2017, Rice 1998, Riedman 1990, Rule et al. 2020, Rule et al. 2020, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Stirling 1971, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2024, Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2016 and Weber 1928

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Acrophoca Afrophoca Auroraphoca Australophoca Callophoca Hadrokirus Homiphoca Hydrurga Leptonychotes Lobodon Lobodontini Magnotherium Mesotaria Mirounga Miroungini Monachini Monachus Monotherium wymani Neomonachus Noriphoca Ommatophoca Paleophoca nystii Palmidophoca Piscophoca Pliophoca Pontophoca Pristiphoca Pristiphoca occitana Sarcodectes Seronectes Terranectes Terranectes magnus Terranectes parvus Virginiaphoca

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Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (9 collections), Argentina (2), the Bahamas (11), Belize (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), Chile (3), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (5), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Guadeloupe (1), Honduras (9), Italy (3), Jamaica (5), Mexico (12), Morocco (4), Namibia (1), the Netherlands Antilles (7), New Zealand (4), Nicaragua (2), Portugal (2), Saint Kitts and Nevis (2), South Africa (10), Spain (2), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (66: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, Virgin Islands, Washington), Venezuela (2), Virgin Islands (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (2), Belgium (5), Egypt (2), France (1), Italy (7), New Zealand (2), South Africa (7), Spain (4), United States (9: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Hemphillian of United States (5: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), New Zealand (1), South Africa (4), United States (1: Virginia)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (1), Chile (8), Denmark (1), France (6), Italy (1), Libya (1), Malta (1), Moldova (2), the Netherlands (1), Peru (8), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), Ukraine (2), United States (8: California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia)

Total: 271 collections including 314 occurrences

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