Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
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 L. Dewaele et al. 2017
See also Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Friant 1947, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Kellogg 1922, Koretsky 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and Zittel 1925
Sister taxa: Batavipusa, Cryptophoca, Cystophora, Cystophorini, Erignathini, Erignathus, Frisiphoca, Gryphoca, Halichoerus, Histriophoca, Kawas, Leptophoca, Leptophoca amphiatlantica, Monachopsis, Nanophoca, Necromites, Pagophilus, Phoca, Phocanella, Phocini, Platyphoca, Praepusa, Pusa, Sarmatonectes
Subtaxa: Prophoca rousseaui
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Massachusetts collection)
• Miocene of Belgium (4)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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