†subfamily Devinophocinae Koretsky and Holec 2002 (seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Full reference: I. A. Koretsky and P. Holec. 2002. A primitive seal (Mammalia: Phocidae) from the early middle Miocene of central Paratethys. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93:163-178

Parent taxon: Phocidae according to A. Hafed et al. 2021

See also Berta et al. 2018, Koretsky and Holec 2002, Koretsky and Rahmat 2015, Rahmat and Koretsky 2016 and Rahmat and Koretsky 2018

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Devinophoca

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Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bonanza site (Miocene of Slovakia)

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