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Taxonomy
Callophoca was named by Van Beneden (1876) [Sepkoski's age data: T Plio].
It was reranked as Phoca (Callophoca) by Trouessart (1898) and Friant (1947); it was considered a nomen dubium by Berta et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Phocinae by Trouessart (1904); to Phoca by Trouessart (1898) and Friant (1947); to Phocidae by Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1922) and Carroll (1988); to Monachina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Monachini by Koretsky (2001), Koretsky and Grigorescu (2002) and Koretsky and Barnes (2008); to Miroungini by Muizon (1981), Fulton and Strobeck (2010) and Amson and Muizon (2013); and to Monachinae by Berta (2002), Koretsky and Holec (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Koretsky and Ray (2008), Berta (2009), Berta (2017), Dewaele et al. (2018), Berta (2018), Berta et al. (2018) and Albright et al. (2019).
It was reranked as Phoca (Callophoca) by Trouessart (1898) and Friant (1947); it was considered a nomen dubium by Berta et al. (2015).
It was assigned to Phocinae by Trouessart (1904); to Phoca by Trouessart (1898) and Friant (1947); to Phocidae by Palmer (1904), Kellogg (1922) and Carroll (1988); to Monachina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Carnivora by Sepkoski (2002); to Monachini by Koretsky (2001), Koretsky and Grigorescu (2002) and Koretsky and Barnes (2008); to Miroungini by Muizon (1981), Fulton and Strobeck (2010) and Amson and Muizon (2013); and to Monachinae by Berta (2002), Koretsky and Holec (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Koretsky and Ray (2008), Berta (2009), Berta (2017), Dewaele et al. (2018), Berta (2018), Berta et al. (2018) and Albright et al. (2019).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1874 | Callophoca obscura Vanden Broeck p. 199 |
1874 | Mesotaria ambigua Vanden Broeck p. 199 |
1876 | Mesotaria ambigua Van Beneden p. 796 |
1876 | Callophoca Van Beneden p. 798 |
1876 | Callophoca obscura Van Beneden p. 798 |
1877 | Mesotaria ambigua Van Beneden |
1898 | Mesotaria ambigua Trouessart p. 377 |
1898 | Phoca (Callophoca) Trouessart p. 388 |
1898 | Phoca (Callophoca) obscura Trouessart p. 388 |
1904 | Callophoca Palmer p. 153 |
1904 | Mesotaria ambigua Trouessart p. 282 |
1904 | Callophoca Trouessart p. 287 |
1904 | Callophoca obscura Trouessart p. 287 |
1922 | Mesotaria ambigua Kellogg p. 109 |
1922 | Callophoca Kellogg p. 123 |
1922 | Callophoca obscura Kellogg p. 124 |
1947 | Mesotaria ambigua Friant p. 5 |
1947 | Phoca (Callophoca) Friant p. 7 |
1947 | Phoca (Callophoca) obscura Friant p. 7 |
1976 | Callophoca ambigua Ray p. 394 |
1976 | Callophoca obscura Ray p. 394 |
1977 | Callophoca ambigua Ray p. 394 |
1981 | Callophoca Muizon p. 135 |
1988 | Callophoca Carroll |
1997 | Callophoca McKenna and Bell p. 259 |
2001 | Callophoca Koretsky p. 86 |
2001 | Callophoca obscura Koretsky p. 86 |
2002 | Callophoca Berta p. 923 |
2002 | Callophoca Koretsky and Grigorescu p. 151 |
2002 | Callophoca Koretsky and Holec p. 175 |
2002 | Callophoca Sepkoski |
2003 | Callophoca Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
2003 | Callophoca obscura Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
2008 | Callophoca Koretsky and Barnes p. 550 |
2008 | Callophoca obscura Koretsky and Barnes p. 551 |
2008 | Callophoca Koretsky and Ray p. 94 |
2008 | Callophoca obscura Koretsky and Ray p. 97 |
2008 | Mesotaria ambigua Koretsky and Ray p. 98 |
2009 | Callophoca Berta p. 863 |
2010 | Callophoca Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1 |
2013 | Callophoca Amson and Muizon |
2016 | Callophoca obscura Boessenecker and Churchill p. 1 |
2017 | Callophoca Berta p. 157 |
2017 | Callophoca obscura Rahmat et al. p. 224 |
2018 | Callophoca Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C |
2018 | Callophoca Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2 |
2018 | Callophoca obscura Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 4 |
2018 | Callophoca Dewaele et al. p. 7 |
2018 | Callophoca obscura Dewaele et al. p. 7 |
2019 | Callophoca Albright et al. p. 179 |
2019 | Callophoca obscura Albright et al. p. 179 |
2022 | Callophoca obscura Berta et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1.1 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Callophoca Van Beneden 1876
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Invalid names: Callophoca obscura Van Beneden 1876 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003 |
Age range: base of the Serravallian to the top of the Piacenzian or 13.82000 to 2.58800 Ma
Collections (14 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Serravallian | USA (Virginia) | C. obscura (126605) | |
Tortonian | USA (Massachusetts) | C. obscura (193358) | |
Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | C. obscura (18502) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | C. obscura (18532 45478) | |
Late/Upper Hemphillian - Zanclean | USA (Florida) | C. obscura (18535) | |
Messinian | USA (Virginia) | C. obscura (179732) | |
Early/Lower Pliocene | USA (South Carolina) | C. obscura (79743) | |
Zanclean | USA (Florida) | C. obscura (154720) | |
Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | C. ambigua, C. obscura (52582) C. obscura (77585) | |
Zanclean | Belgium (Antwerpen) | C. ambigua, C. obscura (57701) | |
Pliocene | Belgium (Antwerpen) | Mesotaria ambigua (67029) | |
Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | C. obscura (22712) |