Devinophoca emryi Koretsky and Rahmat 2015 (seal)

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 A. Berta et al. 2022

See also 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 Slovakia.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bonanza site

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