Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Full reference: I. A. Koretsky and S. J. Rahmat. 2015. A new species of the Subfamily Devinophocinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the Central Paratethys. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 121(1):31-47
Belongs to Devinophoca according to J. P. Rule and T. Park 2024
See also Berta et al. 2022, Koretsky and Rahmat 2015, Rahmat and Koretsky 2016 and Rahmat and Koretsky 2018
Sister taxon: Devinophoca claytoni
Type specimen: USNM 553684, a partial skull. Its type locality is Bonanza site, which is in a Serravallian marine sandstone/sandstone in the Studienka Formation of Slovakia.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Bonanza site
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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