Otaria fischeri Gervais and Ameghino 1880 (sea lion)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Otariidae

Full reference: P. Gervais and F. Ameghino. 1880. Les Mammifres Fossiles: de L'Amrique Du Sud 1-255

Belongs to Otaria according to P. Gervais and F. Ameghino 1880

See also Ameghino 1889, Kellogg 1922, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904 and True 1909

Sister taxa: Otaria byronia, Phoca flavescens

Type specimen: Its type locality is Barrancas del Rio Parana, which is in a Tortonian marginal marine siltstone/sandstone in the Entre Rios Formation of Argentina

Ecology: amphibious piscivore

Distribution: found only at Barrancas del Rio Parana

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