Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: I. A. Koretsky and D. P. Domning. 2014. One of the oldest seals (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the Old World. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):224-229

Parent taxon: Monachinae according to A. Berta et al. 2018

See also Berta 2017 and Koretsky and Domning 2014

Sister taxa: Acrophoca, Australophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mirounga, Miroungini, Monachini, Monachus, Monotherium, Neomonachus, Noriphoca, Ommatophoca, Piscophoca, Pliophoca, Pontophoca, Sarcodectes

Subtaxa: Afrophoca libyca

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Type: Afrophoca libyca

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Jabal Zalatan Z131 (Miocene to Miocene of Libya)

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