Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Phocinae according to I. A. Koretsky and S. J. Rahmat 2021
See also Berta et al. 2018, Burns and Fay 1970, Davis et al. 2004, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky and Barnes 2008, McKenna and Bell 1997, Muizon 1981, Muizon 1982, Rice 1998, Scheffer and Rice 1963 and Thomas et al. 1982
Sister taxa: Batavipusa, Cryptophoca, Cystophora, Cystophorini, Erignathini, Erignathus, Frisiphoca, Gryphoca, Halichoerus, Histriophoca, Kawas, Leptophoca, Leptophoca amphiatlantica, Monachopsis, Nanophoca, Necromites, Pagophilus, Phoca, Phocanella, Platyphoca, Praepusa, Prophoca, Pusa, Sarmatonectes
Subtaxa: Histriophocina Phocina Phocinina
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Grytsiv (aka Gritsev) (Miocene to Miocene of Ukraine)