Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Alternative combination: Phoca (Platyphoca) vulgaris
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
Belongs to Platyphoca according to T. A. Deméré et al. 2003
See also Berta et al. 2022, Friant 1947, Kellogg 1922, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Barnes 2008, Koretsky et al. 2014, Koretsky and Ray 2008, Ray 1976, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden 1876 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxon: Platyphoca danica
Type specimen: IRSNB 1117 Ct. M. 210, a limb element (left humerus). Its type locality is Sable Superieur d'Anvers, which is in a Zanclean offshore shelf sandstone in the Kattendijk Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Belgium (2 collections), United States (1: North Carolina)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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