Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: J. P. Rule, J. W. Adams, F. G. Marx, A. R. Evans, A. J. D. Tennyson, R. P. Scofield, and E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2020. First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287:20202318

Belongs to Eomonachus according to J. P. Rule and T. Park 2024

See also Rule et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMNZ S.047422, a partial skull (partial dorsoventrally distorted skull missing the anterior portion of the premaxilla, the jugals and the teeth). Its type locality is Waihi Beach, which is in a Waipipian coastal mudstone in the Tangahoe Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Waihi Beach

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.