Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Alternative spelling: Halichoerus (Gryphoca)
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1876. Les phoques fossiles du bassin d'Anvers. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 41:783-803
Parent taxon: Phocinae according to T. A. Deméré et al. 2003
See also Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Friant 1947, Kellogg 1922, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Barnes 2008, Koretsky et al. 2014, Koretsky and Ray 2008, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002, Trouessart 1898 and Trouessart 1904
Sister taxa: Batavipusa, Cryptophoca, Cystophora, Cystophorini, Erignathini, Erignathus, Frisiphoca, Halichoerus, Histriophoca, Kawas, Leptophoca, Leptophoca amphiatlantica, Monachopsis, Nanophoca, Necromites, Pagophilus, Phoca, Phocanella, Phocini, Platyphoca, Praepusa, Prophoca, Pusa, Sarmatonectes
Subtaxa: Gryphoca nordica Gryphoca similis
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Belgium (2 collections), the Netherlands (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), the Netherlands (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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