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Desmatophocinae (disused)
Taxonomy
Desmatophocinae was named by Mitchell (1966). It is extant.
It was reranked as the tribe Desmatophocini by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Otariidae by Mitchell (1966), Mitchell (1968), Barnes (1972), Barnes (1979), Barnes (1987) and Barnes (1989); to Odobeninae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Desmatophocidae by Koretsky and Barnes (2006) and Barnes (2008).
It was reranked as the tribe Desmatophocini by McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Otariidae by Mitchell (1966), Mitchell (1968), Barnes (1972), Barnes (1979), Barnes (1987) and Barnes (1989); to Odobeninae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Desmatophocidae by Koretsky and Barnes (2006) and Barnes (2008).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1966 | Desmatophocinae Mitchell p. 4 |
| 1968 | Desmatophocinae Mitchell p. 1897 |
| 1972 | Desmatophocinae Barnes p. 5 |
| 1979 | Desmatophocinae Barnes p. 8 |
| 1987 | Desmatophocinae Barnes p. 332 |
| 1989 | Desmatophocinae Barnes p. 3 |
| 1997 | Desmatophocini McKenna and Bell p. 255 |
| 2006 | Desmatophocinae Koretsky and Barnes p. 145 |
| 2008 | Desmatophocinae Barnes p. 530 |
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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.
Subfm. Desmatophocinae Mitchell 1966
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available