Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: S. Rahmat, A. B. Hafed, S. J. Godfrey, J. R. Nance, and I. A. Koretsky. 2021. A new unusual Monachinae from the Neogene of the Atlantic Coastal Plain (Maryland, USA). Historical Biology

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

See also Rahmat et al. 2021

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CMM-V-5350, a partial skull (partial skull, lacking the frontals, nasals, palatines, and jugal bones. Right side of skull missing, except for maxilla and premaxilla regions). Its type locality is Windmill Point, which is in a Tortonian coastal horizon in the St Marys Formation of Maryland.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Windmill Point

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