Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Alternative spelling: Phoca (Phocanella)
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
Parent taxon: Phocinae according to A. B. Hafed et al. 2024
See also Albright et al. 2019, Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Carroll 1988, Deméré et al. 2003, Friant 1944, Friant 1947, Ginsburg and Janvier 1971, Ginsburg and Janvier 1975, Ginsburg and Janvier 1999, Hafed et al. 2023, Kellogg 1922, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Barnes 2008, Koretsky and Ray 2008, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982, Newton 1891, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002 and Trouessart 1898
Sister taxa: Batavipusa, Cryptophoca, Cystophora, Cystophorini, Erignathini, Erignathus, Frisiphoca, Gryphoca, Halichoerus, Histriophoca, Kawas, Leptophoca, Leptophoca amphiatlantica, Monachopsis, Nanophoca, Necromites, Pagophilus, Phoca, Phocini, Platyphoca, Praepusa, Prophoca, Pusa, Sarmatonectes
Subtaxa: Phoca (Phocanella) straeleni Phocanella couffoni Phocanella pumila
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 Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of France (2), the Netherlands (1)
Total: 14 collections including 16 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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