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Lobodon (crabeater seal)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy

Lobodon was named by Gray (1844). It is extant.

It was reranked as Ogmorhinus (Lobodon) by Trouessart (1898) and Trouessart (1904).

It was assigned to Stenorhynchinae by Gill (1866); to Stenorhyncina by Gray (1866); to Stenorhynchina by Gray (1871); to Ogmorhinus by Trouessart (1898); to Ogmorhinus by Trouessart (1904); to Lobodontinae by Hay (1930); to Lobodontina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocidae by Gray (1850), Hay (1902), Kellogg (1922), Zittel (1925) and Werdelin and Peigne (2010); to Monachinae by Burns and Fay (1970), Riedman (1990), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009) and Berta (2018); and to Lobodontini by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Muizon (1981), Muizon (1982), Koretsky (2001), Davis et al. (2004), Fulton and Strobeck (2010), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).

Species

Leptorhynchus crassidens, L. carcinophaga (syn. Stenorhynchus serridens)

Synonyms

Leptorhynchus was named by Gray (1844). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Lobodon by Adam (2005).
Ogmorhinus was named by Turner (1888). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Hydrurga by McKenna and Bell (1997); it was synonymized subjectively with Lobodon by Adam (2005).

It was assigned to Ogmorhininae by Turner (1912); and to Monachinae by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Friant (1947).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1844	Leptorhynchus Gray
1844	Lobodon Gray p. 2
1850	Lobodon Gray p. 9
1866	Lobodon Gill p. 6
1866	Lobodon Gray p. 8
1871	Lobodon Gray p. 4
1888	Ogmorhinus Turner p. 64
1898	Ogmorhinus Trouessart p. 380
1898	Ogmorhinus (Lobodon) Trouessart p. 381
1902	Lobodon Hay p. 785
1904	Ogmorhinus Trouessart p. 283
1904	Ogmorhinus (Lobodon) Trouessart p. 284
1912	Ogmorhinus Turner p. 198
1922	Lobodon Kellogg p. 115
1925	Lobodon Zittel p. 78
1930	Lobodon Hay p. 562
1947	Ogmorhinus Friant p. 6
1963	Lobodon Scheffer and Rice p. 3
1970	Lobodon Burns and Fay p. 380
1981	Lobodon Muizon p. 135
1982	Lobodon Muizon p. 205 figs. Table 1
1990	Lobodon Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2
1997	Lobodon McKenna and Bell p. 260
2001	Lobodon Koretsky p. 86
2002	Lobodon Berta p. 923
2003	Lobodon Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2004	Lobodon Davis et al. p. 365
2009	Lobodon Berta p. 863
2010	Lobodon Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1
2010	Lobodon Werdelin and Peigne p. 647
2018	Lobodon Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C
2018	Lobodon Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2
2019	Lobodon Kienle and Berta

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Ferae	()
—	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
—	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora
suborder	Caniformia	Kretzoi 1943
infraorder	Canoidea	(Simpson 1931)
superfamily	Arctoidea	Flower 1869
—	Panpinnipedia	Wolsan et al. 2020
—	Pinnipedimorpha
—	Pinnipedia	()
family	Phocidae	()
subfamily	Monachinae
genus	Lobodon

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.

G. Lobodon Gray 1844 [crabeater seal]

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Lobodon carcinophaga Hombron and Jacquinot 1843 [crabeater seal]

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Invalid names: Stenorhynchus serridens Owen 1843 [synonym]

Invalid names: Leptorhynchus Gray 1844 [synonym], Ogmorhinus Turner 1888 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteuc

Ontogeny:

modification of partsuc

Environment:

marineuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

amphibiousuc

Diet:

piscivoref

Diet 2:

carnivoref

Reproduction:

viviparousuc

Created:

2005-06-08 10:11:09

Modified:

2005-06-08 12:11:09

Source: f = family, c = class, uc = unranked clade

References: Nowak 1991, Gingerich 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Pleistocene	2.588 - 0.0117	South Africa	Lobodon carcinophagus (21929)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	South Africa	Lobodon carcinophagus (115188)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	South Africa	Lobodon carcinophagus (21709)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	South Africa	Lobodon carcinophaga (21706)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Antarctica	Lobodon carcinophaga (90111 168663) Lobodon carcinophagus (215322)