Callophoca Van Beneden 1876 (seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Alternative spelling: Phoca (Callophoca)

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: Monachinae according to L. Dewaele et al. 2018

See also Albright et al. 2019, Amson and Muizon 2013, Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Berta et al. 2015, Carroll 1988, Deméré et al. 2003, Friant 1947, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Kellogg 1922, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Barnes 2008, Koretsky and Grigorescu 2002, Koretsky and Holec 2002, Koretsky and Ray 2008, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981, Palmer 1904, Sepkoski 2002, Trouessart 1898 and Trouessart 1904

Sister taxa: Acrophoca, Afrophoca, Auroraphoca, Australophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mesotaria, 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

Subtaxa: Callophoca obscura

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Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Belgium (2 collections), United States (5: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

• Hemphillian of United States (4: Florida)

• Miocene of United States (3: Massachusetts, Virginia)

Total: 14 collections including 16 occurrences

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