†Pontophoca jutlandica Koretsky et al. 2014 (seal)
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Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Midtsnderjyllands Museum, Gram Slot, Denmark
Full reference: I. Koretsky, S. Rahmat, and N. Peters. 2014. Rare late Miocene seal taxa (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Sea Basin. Vestnik zoologii 48(5):419-432
Belongs to Pontophoca according to I. Koretsky et al. 2014
See also Berta et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Pontophoca sarmatica, Pontophoca simionescui
Type specimen: MSM 1788, a limb element (partial right femur). Its type locality is Gram Brick Works, which is in a Tortonian marine claystone in the Gram Formation of Denmark.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Gram Brick Works
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