Platyphoca danica Koretsky et al. 2014 (seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

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 Platyphoca according to I. Koretsky et al. 2014

See also Berta et al. 2022

Sister taxon: Platyphoca vulgaris

Type specimen: GM1, a limb element (dial left humerus). Its type locality is Skaerum Molle, which is in a Tortonian marine claystone in the Gram Formation of Denmark.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Skaerum Molle

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