Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: A. B. Hafed, J. R. Nance, I. A. Koretsky and S. J. Rahmat. 2023. New seal mandibles belonging to the subfamilies Monachinae and Phocinae discovered in the Neogene of North Carolina (USA). Historial Biology 35(5):705-720

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

See also Hafed et al. 2023

Sister taxon: Hadrokirus martini

Type specimen: CMM-V-10319, a mandible (incomplete body of right mandible missing vertical part of ramus, symphysis, and most of the body). Its type locality is Meherrin River, which is in a Pliocene marine horizon in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Meherrin River

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.