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Taxonomy
Otaria fischeri was named by Gervais and Ameghino (1880). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Barrancas del Rio Parana, which is in a Tortonian marginal marine siltstone/sandstone in the Entre Rios Formation of Argentina.
It was recombined as Arctophoca fischeri by Ameghino (1886), Ameghino (1889); it was recombined as Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus) fischeri by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904); it was considered a nomen nudum by True (1909); it was recombined as Arctocephalus fischeri by Kellogg (1922).
It was recombined as Arctophoca fischeri by Ameghino (1886), Ameghino (1889); it was recombined as Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus) fischeri by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904); it was considered a nomen nudum by True (1909); it was recombined as Arctocephalus fischeri by Kellogg (1922).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1880 | Otaria fischeri Gervais and Ameghino p. 223 |
| 1886 | Arctophoca fischeri Ameghino |
| 1889 | Arctophoca fischeri Ameghino p. 342 |
| 1898 | Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus) fischeri Trouessart p. 374 |
| 1904 | Arctocephalus (Arctocephalus) fischeri Trouessart p. 281 |
| 1922 | Arctocephalus fischeri Kellogg p. 108 |
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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.
†Otaria fischeri Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Diagnosis
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| Source: t = tribe, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991 | |||||