Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: C. Muizon. 1981. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Premiere parti: Deux nouveaux Monachina (Phocidae, Mammalia) du Pliocene de Sud-Sacaco. Recherche sur les grandes civilisations Memoire 6:1-150

Parent taxon: Monachinae according to A. Berta 2018

See also Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Berta et al. 2018, Canto et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Deméré et al. 2003, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 2001, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982, Rice 1998 and Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Afrophoca, Australophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mirounga, Miroungini, Monachini, Monachus, Monotherium, Neomonachus, Noriphoca, Ommatophoca, Piscophoca, Pliophoca, Pontophoca, Sarcodectes

Subtaxa: Acrophoca longirostris

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Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

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