Devinophoca 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: Devinophocinae according to S. J. Rahmat and I. A. Koretsky 2018

See also Berta 2017, Berta et al. 2018, Koretsky and Holec 2002, Koretsky and Rahmat 2015 and Rahmat and Koretsky 2016

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Devinophoca claytoni Devinophoca emryi

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Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore

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

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