Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Full reference: E. L. Trouessart. 1897. Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilium. Fassiculus I-II I-II
Parent taxon: Phocidae according to L. Dewaele et al. 2018
See also Adam 2004, Albright et al. 2019, Amson and Muizon 2013, Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Berta et al. 2015, Bianucci et al. 2011, Boessenecker and Churchill 2016, Burns and Fay 1970, Davis et al. 2004, Deméré et al. 2003, Dewaele and de Muizon 2024, Dewaele and Lambert 2018, Dewaele et al. 2018, Friant 1947, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Ginsburg and Janvier 1971, Ginsburg and Janvier 1999, Govender 2018, Hafed et al. 2024, Hafed et al. 2023, Hafed et al. 2021, Hendey 1974, Kellogg 1922, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 1991, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Barnes 2008, Koretsky and Domning 2014, Koretsky and Grigorescu 2002, Koretsky and Holec 2002, Koretsky et al. 2014, Koretsky and Ray 2008, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Ling and Bryden 1992, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982, Muizon and Bond 1982, Muizon and Hendey 1980, Rahmat et al. 2017, Rice 1998, Riedman 1990, Rule et al. 2020, Rule et al. 2020, Scheffer and Rice 1963, Stirling 1971, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2024, Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2016 and Weber 1928
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acrophoca Afrophoca Auroraphoca Australophoca Callophoca Hadrokirus Homiphoca Hydrurga Leptonychotes Lobodon Lobodontini Magnotherium Mesotaria Messiphoca Mirounga Miroungini Monachini Monachus Monotherium wymani Neomonachus Noriphoca Ommatophoca Paleophoca nystii Palmidophoca Piscophoca Pliophoca Pontophoca Pristiphoca Pristiphoca occitana Sarcodectes Seronectes Terranectes Terranectes magnus Terranectes parvus Virginiaphoca
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (9 collections), Arctic Ocean (1), Argentina (2), Azerbaijan (1), the Bahamas (11), Belize (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (76: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), Chile (3), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (5), the Dominican Republic (1), Estonia (1), Finland (6), France (1), Germany (3), Greenland (41), Guadeloupe (1), Honduras (9), Iceland (1), Italy (3), Jamaica (5), Japan (3), Mexico (12), Morocco (4), Namibia (1), the Netherlands (5), the Netherlands Antilles (7), New Zealand (4), Nicaragua (2), North Atlantic (2), Norway (7), Poland (1), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (11), Saint Kitts and Nevis (2), South Africa (10), Spain (7), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Sweden (16), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (116: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (2), Virgin Islands (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Belgium (5), Egypt (2), France (1), Italy (7), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), South Africa (7), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (13: Alaska, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Hemphillian of United States (5: Florida)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), South Africa (4), United States (1: Virginia)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (2), Australia (1), Austria (5), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (10), Chile (8), Denmark (2), France (8), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Italy (3), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (1), Malta (2), Moldova (9), the Netherlands (7), Peru (8), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (5), South Africa (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (25), United States (36: California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia)
Total: 625 collections including 875 occurrences