Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Alternative spelling: Pisciphoca
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
Parent taxon: Monachinae according to A. Berta 2018
See also Amson and Muizon 2013, Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Berta et al. 2018, Canto et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Deméré et al. 2003, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982 and Rice 1998
Sister taxa: Acrophoca, Afrophoca, Auroraphoca, Australophoca, Callophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mesotaria, Mirounga, Miroungini, Monachini, Monachus, Monotherium wymani, Neomonachus, Noriphoca, Ommatophoca, Paleophoca nystii, Palmidophoca, Pliophoca, Pontophoca, Pristiphoca, Pristiphoca occitana, Sarcodectes, Seronectes, Terranectes, Terranectes magnus, Terranectes parvus, Virginiaphoca
Subtaxa: Piscophoca pacifica
Type: Piscophoca pacifica
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Chile (3 collections), Peru (3)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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