†Leptorhynchus crassidens Cautley and Falconer 1840 (crabeater seal)
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Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Full reference: P. T. Cautley and H. Falconer. 1840. Notice on the remains of a fossil monkey from the Tertiary strata of the Sewalik Hills in the North of Hindoostan. Transactions of the Geological Soceity of London, Series 2 5:499-504
Belongs to Leptorhynchus according to Falconer and Cautley 1840
Sister taxa: Lobodon carcinophaga, Lobodon vetus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Siwalik Hills, which is in a Pliocene fluvial horizon in the Pinjor Formation of Pakistan
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Leptorhynchus crassidens in the database
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