Acrophoca longirostris Muizon 1981 (seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1981. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Premiere parti: Deux nouveaux Monachina (Phocidae, Mammalia) du Pliocene de Sud-Sacaco. Recherche sur les grandes civilisations Memoire 6:1-150

Belongs to Acrophoca according to A. M. Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2024

See also Berta et al. 2018, Berta et al. 2022, Berta et al. 2015, Deméré et al. 2003, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 2001, Muizon 1981 and Pilleri 1990

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN SAS 563, a partial skull. Its type locality is Sud-Sacaco West (SAS) horizon, which is in a Messinian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Chile (2 collections), Peru (3)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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