Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Alternative combination: Halichoerus (Gryphoca) similis
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 Gryphoca according to A. Berta et al. 2022
See also Deméré et al. 2003, 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: Gryphoca nordica
Type specimen: IRSNB 1081, Ct. M. 217, a limb element (left humerus). Its type locality is Wommelgem, which is in a Pliocene marine sandstone in Belgium.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Belgium (2 collections), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), the Netherlands (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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