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Taxonomy
Homiphoca murfreesi was named by Hafed et al. (2023). Its type specimen is CMM-V-10318, a mandible (incomplete body of left mandible lacking ramus and most of body), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Meherrin River, which is in a Pliocene marine horizon in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2023 | Homiphoca murfreesi Hafed et al. |
| 2024 | Homiphoca murfreesi Rule and Park p. 10 figs. Table 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.
†Homiphoca murfreesi Hafed et al. 2023
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. B. Hafed et al. 2023 | Left mandible (Figure 2A-C). Mandibular symphysis thick, oval in outline, its long axis inclined dorsoventrally; mandibular symphysis passes under posterior alveolus of p2, reaching beginning of p3; p1 single-rooted with round alveolus; p1 large and mediolaterally compressed; mental prominence pronounced; canine oval in sec- tion; post-canine teeth aligned parallel to toothrow and multicus- pidate; mental process present, extending between p1 and p2; diastemata between teeth absent; basal cingulum well developed on lingual side; main cusp on all cheek teeth sharp, triangular in shape; supplementary cusps well developed. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003 | |||||