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Taxonomy
Kawas benegasorum was named by Cozzuol (2001) [Museo Paleontologico "Egidio Feruglio" of Trelew, Chubut, Argentina]. Its type specimen is MEF-PV 601, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Punta San Román, which is in a Tortonian coastal sandstone in the Puerto Madryn Formation of Argentina.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2001 | Kawas benegasorum Cozzuol p. 415 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2014 | Kawas benegasorum Koretsky and Domning p. 227 |
| 2018 | Kawas benegasorum Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2022 | Kawas benegasorum Berta et al. p. 7 figs. Table 1.1 |
| 2024 | Kawas benegasorum 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.
†Kawas benegasorum Cozzuol 2001
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. Cozzuol 2001 | A phocid differing from Lobodontini, Mirounga, ‘‘Monachus,’’ Properiptychus, Callophoca, Piscophoca, Acrophoca, and Messiphoca by having an entepicondilar foramen and a conspicuous supinator ridge on the humerus. It differs from all ‘‘Monachinae’’ by having strongly everted ilia, very conspicuous epicondylar crests on the femur, and unreduced pedal ungual phalanges. It differs from all Lobodontini by having a conspicuous scapular spine and short epiphyses on the ungual phalanges of the fore flipper. It differs from all other members of the Phocinae (except Erignathus) by having a lesser excavation on the lateral side of the ilium, and from all phocines by a long and not abruptly terminated deltopectoral crest on the humerus. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Nowak 1991, Gingerich 2003 | |||||