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Desmatophocidae
Taxonomy
Desmatophocidae was named by Hay (1930).
It was assigned to Pinnipedia by Hay (1930); to Otarioidea by Repenning and Tedford (1977), Carroll (1988), Horikawa (1995), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Barnes (2008) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Phocoidea by Rice (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Rice (2009) and Boessenecker and Churchill (2015); and to Pinnipedia by Kohno (1996), Berta (2017), Tonomori et al. (2018), Velez-Juarbe (2018), Boessenecker and Churchill (2018), Berta (2018) and Tate-Jones et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Pinnipedia by Hay (1930); to Otarioidea by Repenning and Tedford (1977), Carroll (1988), Horikawa (1995), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Barnes (2008) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Phocoidea by Rice (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Rice (2009) and Boessenecker and Churchill (2015); and to Pinnipedia by Kohno (1996), Berta (2017), Tonomori et al. (2018), Velez-Juarbe (2018), Boessenecker and Churchill (2018), Berta (2018) and Tate-Jones et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1930 | Desmatophocidae Hay p. 557 |
| 1977 | Desmatophocidae Repenning and Tedford p. 10 |
| 1988 | Desmatophocidae Carroll |
| 1995 | Desmatophocidae Horikawa p. 322 figs. Table 4 |
| 1996 | Desmatophocidae Kohno p. 389 |
| 2002 | Desmatophocidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1 |
| 2003 | Desmatophocidae Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2006 | Desmatophocidae Koretsky and Barnes p. 145 |
| 2008 | Desmatophocidae Barnes p. 530 |
| 2009 | Desmatophocidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1 |
| 2010 | Desmatophocidae Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. FIgure 1 |
| 2015 | Desmatophocidae Boessenecker and Churchill p. 3 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Desmatophocidae Berta p. 157 |
| 2018 | Desmatophocidae Berta p. 713 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Desmatophocidae Boessenecker and Churchill |
| 2018 | Desmatophocidae Tonomori et al. p. 3 |
| 2018 | Desmatophocidae Velez-Juarbe p. 9 |
| 2020 | Desmatophocidae Tate-Jones et al. p. 2 |
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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.
Fm. †Desmatophocidae Hay 1930
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Subfm. †Allodesminae Kellogg 1931
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G. †Allodesmus Kellogg 1922
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†Allodesmus demerei Boessenecker and Churchill 2018
†Allodesmus kernensis Kellogg 1922
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Invalid names: Allodesmus gracilis Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym], Allodesmus kelloggi Mitchell 1966 [synonym]
†Allodesmus naorai Kohno 1996
†Allodesmus packardi Barnes 1972
†Allodesmus sinanoensis Nagao 1941
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Invalid names: Allodesmus megallos Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym], Allodesmus sadoensis Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym]
†Allodesmus uraiporensis Tonomori et al. 2018
Invalid names: Brachyallodesmus Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym], Megagomphos Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym]
G. †Desmatophoca Condon 1906
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†Desmatophoca brachycephala Barnes 1987
†Desmatophoca oregonensis Condon 1906
Invalid names: Desmatophocinae Mitchell 1966 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Gingerich 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chattian to the top of the Tortonian or 28.10000 to 7.24600 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma
Collections (52 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chattian | USA (California) | Allodesmus kernensis (58148) | |
| Chattian | USA (Washington) | Pinnipedia indet. (191171) | |
| Aquitanian | USA (Washington) | Desmatophoca brachycephala (59066) | |
| Burdigalian | USA (Oregon) | Allodesminae indet., Desmatophoca oregonensis (18929) Desmatophoca oregonensis (59061 60337) Eodesmus condoni (190995) | |
| Late/Upper Hemingfordian - Early/Lower Barstovian | USA (California) | Atopotarus courseni (13061) | |
| Langhian | Japan (Nagano) | Allodesmus sinanoensis (220345 220351) Allodesmus sp., Allodesmus sinanoensis (220347) | |
| Langhian | USA (Alaska) | Desmatophoca sp. (59983) | |
| Langhian | Mexico (Baja California) | Allodesmus sp. (52183) | |
| Langhian | Japan | Allodesmus kernensis (56305) Allodesmus sinanoensis (220339) Atopotarus sp. (59667) | |
| Langhian | USA (California) | Allodesmus kernensis (13192 13297) Allodesmus kernensis, Allodesmus sadoensis (59059) Allodesmus sp. (19595) | |
| Langhian | Japan (Hokkaido) | Allodesminae indet. (55652) Allodesmus uraiporensis (188758) | |
| Langhian | Japan (Shimane) | Allodesminae indet. (220319) | |
| Langhian | Japan (Miyagi) | Allodesminae indet. (220321) | |
| Langhian | Japan (Niigata) | Allodesmus sadoensis (59181) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Japan (Nagano) | Allodesmus kernensis, Eumetopias sinanoensis (59179) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | USA (California) | Allodesmus sinanoensis (225315) Allodesmus sp. (46069 121152 151009) Atopotarus courseni (51110) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Japan (Ishikawa) | Allodesminae indet. (220322) | |
| Middle Miocene | USA (California) | Allodesmus sp. (65985) | |
| Middle Miocene | Japan (Tochigi) | Allodesmus courseni (101905) | |
| Middle Miocene | Japan (Shimane) | Allodesminae indet. (102978) | |
| Langhian - Tortonian | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | Allodesmus sp. (57778) | |
| Serravallian | Japan (Nagano) | Allodesmus sinanoensis (74909 220352 220354) Allodesmus sinanoensis, Allodesmus megallos (59182) Allodesmus sp., Allodesmus sinanoensis (220341) | |
| Serravallian | Japan (Gunma) | Allodesminae indet. (56951) | |
| Serravallian | USA (California) | Allodesmus kelloggi, Allodesmus gracilis (58987) | |
| Serravallian | Japan (Ibaraki) | Allodesminae indet. (220323) Allodesmus naorai (101978) | |
| Tortonian | USA (Washington) | Allodesmus demerei (191022) Allodesmus sp. (59183) | |
| Tortonian | Japan (Gunma) | Allodesminae indet. (220324) Allodesmus megallos (56950) | |
| Tortonian | Japan (Nagano) | Allodesmus sinanoensis (220320) | |
| Tortonian | USA (California) | Allodesmus sp. (46070) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | USA (California) | Allodesmus kernensis (237586) |