†Messiphoca Muizon 1981 (seal)
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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
Parent taxon: Phocidae according to I. A. Koretsky and D. P. Domning 2014
See also Koretsky 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Messiphoca mauretanica
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Raz-el-Ain (Miocene of Algeria)
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