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Taxonomy
Halichoerus was named by Nilsson (1820). It is extant. Its type is Halichoerus grypus.
It was assigned to Trichechinae by Gray (1866); to Halichoerina by Gray (1871); to Phocidae by Gray (1850), Scott (1873); to Phocinina by Koretsky (2001); to Phocina by Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Phocinae by Gill (1866), Allen (1880), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Friant (1947), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Riedman (1990), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009), Berta (2018); and to Phocini by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Burns and Fay (1970), Muizon (1981), McKenna and Bell (1997), Davis et al. (2004), Berta et al. (2018), Kienle and Berta (2019).
It was assigned to Trichechinae by Gray (1866); to Halichoerina by Gray (1871); to Phocidae by Gray (1850), Scott (1873); to Phocinina by Koretsky (2001); to Phocina by Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Phocinae by Gill (1866), Allen (1880), Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Friant (1947), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Riedman (1990), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009), Berta (2018); and to Phocini by Scheffer and Rice (1963), Burns and Fay (1970), Muizon (1981), McKenna and Bell (1997), Davis et al. (2004), Berta et al. (2018), Kienle and Berta (2019).
Species
H. (Halichoerus), H. grypus (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1820 | Halichoerus Nilsson p. 376 |
| 1850 | Halichoerus Gray p. 29 |
| 1866 | Halichoerus Gill p. 5 |
| 1866 | Halichoerus Gray p. 33 |
| 1871 | Halichoerus Gray p. 3 |
| 1873 | Halichoerus Scott p. 39 |
| 1880 | Halichoerus Allen p. 682 |
| 1898 | Halichoerus Trouessart p. 381 |
| 1904 | Halichoerus Trouessart p. 284 |
| 1912 | Halichoerus Turner p. 189 |
| 1947 | Halichoerus Friant p. 6 |
| 1963 | Halichoerus Scheffer and Rice p. 3 |
| 1970 | Halichoerus Burns and Fay p. 390 figs. Fig. 3 |
| 1980 | Halichoerus Kurten and Anderson p. 206 |
| 1981 | Halichoerus Muizon p. 135 |
| 1990 | Halichoerus Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2 |
| 1997 | Halichoerus McKenna and Bell p. 258 |
| 2001 | Halichoerus Koretsky p. 85 |
| 2002 | Halichoerus Berta p. 923 |
| 2003 | Halichoerus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2004 | Halichoerus Davis et al. p. 365 |
| 2009 | Halichoerus Berta p. 863 |
| 2010 | Halichoerus Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. FIgure 1 |
| 2018 | Halichoerus Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C |
| 2018 | Halichoerus Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2019 | Halichoerus Kienle and Berta |
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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.
G. Halichoerus Nilsson 1820 [grey seal]
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Subg. Halichoerus (Halichoerus) Trouessart 1898
Halichoerus grypus Fabricius 1791 [grey seal]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Collections (18 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Scotland) | Halichoerus grypus (238412) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (South Carolina) | Halichoerus grypus (65405) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Sweden | Halichoerus grypus (81821 81823) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Halichoerus grypus (57705 57706 73485) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Halichoerus grypus (96706) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Canada (Quebec) | Halichoerus grypus (81691) | |
| Holocene | Sweden | Halichoerus grypus (90101 90103) | |
| Holocene | Germany | Halichoerus grypus (90104) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom | Halichoerus grypus (122112) | |
| Holocene | Netherlands | Halichoerus grypus (55533) | |
| Holocene | Sweden (Goteborg) | Halichoerus grypus (90102) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Quebec) | Halichoerus grypus (168678) | |
| Holocene | Spain | Halichoerus grypus (215735) | |
| Holocene | Estonia | Halichoerus grypus (195026) |