Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Alternative combinations: Phoca (Phoca) vitulinoides, Phoca vitulinoides
Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1876. Les phoques fossiles du bassin d'Anvers. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 41:783-803
Belongs to Nanophoca according to L. Dewaele et al. 2017
See also Berta et al. 2022, Friant 1947, Kellogg 1922, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Ray 2008, Ray 1976, Trouessart 1898, Trouessart 1904, Van Beneden 1876 and Vanden Broeck 1874
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: neotype: IRSNB M2276a–q, a set of vertebrae (partial skeleton). Its type locality is Borsbeek, Fort 3, which is in a Tortonian lagoonal horizon in the Diest Formation of Belgium.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Belgium (1 collection)
• Miocene of Belgium (4), the Netherlands (2)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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