Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1981. Premier signalment de Monachinae (Phocidae, Mammalia) dans le Sahelien (Miocene Superieur) d'Oran (Algerie). Palaeovertebrata 11(5):181-194

Belongs to Messiphoca according to A. Berta et al. 2022

See also Berta et al. 2015, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Domning 2014, Muizon 1981 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ORN 1, a partial skeleton (humerus, radius, ulna, vertebrae). Its type locality is Raz-el-Ain, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in the Raz-el-Ain Formation of Algeria.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Raz-el-Ain

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