Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: V. V. Bogachev. 1940. A finding of a new sea mammal in the Apsheron stage near Baku. Priroda 94:94-94

Parent taxon: Phocinae according to A. Berta 2017

See also McKenna and Bell 1997 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Batavipusa, Cryptophoca, Cystophora, Cystophorini, Erignathini, Erignathus, Frisiphoca, Gryphoca, Halichoerus, Histriophoca, Kawas, Leptophoca, Leptophoca amphiatlantica, Monachopsis, Nanophoca, Pagophilus, Phoca, Phocanella, Phocini, Platyphoca, Praepusa, Prophoca, Pusa, Sarmatonectes

Subtaxa: Necromites nestoris

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Type: Necromites nestoris

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Baku (Quaternary of Azerbaijan)

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