Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1897. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]. Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18(4–9):406-521
Parent taxon: Phocidae according to L. H. Soibelzon and M. Bond 2013
See also Ameghino 1897, Berta 2017, Cozzuol 1996, Koretsky 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon and Bond 1982 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Properiptychus argentinus
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Parana, Pueblo Brugo to Diamante, Parana Fm. (Miocene of Argentina)
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