Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Alternative combination: Phoca (Phocanella) pumila
Synonyms: Phoca (Phocanella) minor Van Beneden 1876, Phocanella minor Van Beneden 1876
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 Phocanella according to A. B. Hafed et al. 2024
See also Albright et al. 2019, Berta et al. 2022, Deméré et al. 2003, Friant 1947, Hafed et al. 2023, Kellogg 1922, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Barnes 2008, Koretsky and Ray 2008, Newton 1891, Osborn 1922, Ray 1976, Trouessart 1898, Van Beneden 1876 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: Phoca (Phocanella) straeleni, Phocanella couffoni
Type specimens:
- Phocanella pumila: IRSNB 1080 Ct. M. 227, a limb element (right humerus). Its type locality is Sable Superieur d'Anvers, which is in a Zanclean offshore shelf sandstone in the Kattendijk Formation of Belgium.
- Phocanella minor: IRSNB 1101, Ct. M. 234, a limb element (right 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:
• Quaternary of the Netherlands (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of the Netherlands (1)
Total: 12 collections including 13 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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