Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae
Full reference: C. Muizon. 1981. Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Premiere parti: Deux nouveaux Monachina (Phocidae, Mammalia) du Pliocene de Sud-Sacaco. Recherche sur les grandes civilisations Memoire 6:1-150
Parent taxon: Monachinae according to A. Berta et al. 2018
See also Amson and Muizon 2013, Boessenecker and Churchill 2016, Davis et al. 2004, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Muizon 1981 and Muizon 1982
Sister taxa: Acrophoca, Afrophoca, Australophoca, Hadrokirus, Homiphoca, Hydrurga, Leptonychotes, Lobodon, Lobodontini, Magnotherium, Mirounga, Monachini, Monachus, Monotherium, Neomonachus, Noriphoca, Ommatophoca, Piscophoca, Pliophoca, Pontophoca, Sarcodectes
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Waipunga (Pliocene of New Zealand)