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, Auroraphoca, Australophoca, Callophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mesotaria, Messiphoca, Mirounga, Miroungini, Monachini, Monachus, Monotherium wymani, Neomonachus, Noriphoca, Ommatophoca, Paleophoca nystii, Palmidophoca, Piscophoca, Pliophoca, Pontophoca, Pristiphoca, Pristiphoca occitana, Sarcodectes, Seronectes, Terranectes, Terranectes magnus, Terranectes parvus, Virginiaphoca
Subtaxa: Acrophoca longirostris
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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