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
Belongs to Acrophoca according to J. P. Rule and T. Park 2024
See also Berta et al. 2018, Berta et al. 2022, Berta et al. 2015, Deméré et al. 2003, Kienle and Berta 2019, Koretsky 2001, Muizon 1981, Pilleri 1990 and Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2024
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN SAS 563, a partial skull. Its type locality is Sud-Sacaco West (SAS) horizon, which is in a Messinian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Chile (2 collections), Peru (3)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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