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Taxonomy
Phocoidea was named by Smirnov (1908). It is extant.
It was assigned to Ursida by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocomorpha by Berta (1994) and Berta (2002); to Pinnipedia by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Riedman (1990), Rice (1998) and Deméré et al. (2003); to Pinnipedia by Burns and Fay (1970), Berta (2009) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Arctoidea by Koretsky (2001) and Koretsky et al. (2014); and to Carnivora by Ling and Bryden (1992), Koretsky et al. (2012), Koretsky et al. (2015) and Hafed et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Ursida by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocomorpha by Berta (1994) and Berta (2002); to Pinnipedia by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Riedman (1990), Rice (1998) and Deméré et al. (2003); to Pinnipedia by Burns and Fay (1970), Berta (2009) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Arctoidea by Koretsky (2001) and Koretsky et al. (2014); and to Carnivora by Ling and Bryden (1992), Koretsky et al. (2012), Koretsky et al. (2015) and Hafed et al. (2021).
Subtaxa
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1821 | Amphibiae Gray p. 302 |
| 1908 | Phocoidea Smirnov |
| 1963 | Phocoidea Scheffer and Rice p. 3 |
| 1970 | Phocoidea Burns and Fay p. 379 |
| 1990 | Phocoidea Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2 |
| 1992 | Phocoidea Ling and Bryden p. 1 |
| 1994 | Phocoidea Berta p. 412 |
| 1997 | Phocoidea McKenna and Bell p. 252 |
| 1998 | Phocoidea Rice |
| 2001 | Phocoidea Koretsky p. 85 |
| 2002 | Phocoidea Berta p. 923 |
| 2003 | Phocoidea Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2009 | Phocoidea Berta p. 863 |
| 2010 | Phocoidea Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2012 | Phocoidea Koretsky et al. p. 5 |
| 2014 | Phocoidea Koretsky et al. p. 421 |
| 2015 | Phocoidea Koretsky et al. p. 58 |
| 2021 | Phocoidea Hafed et al. p. 707 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available