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Taxonomy
Phoca grypus was named by Fabricius (1791). It is extant. It is the type species of Halichoerus.
It was recombined as Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Friant (1947); it was recombined as Halichoerus grypus by Nilsson (1847), Gray (1850), Gill (1866), Gray (1866), Scott (1873), Allen (1880), Turner (1912), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Riedman (1990), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Davis et al. (2004), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).
It was recombined as Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Friant (1947); it was recombined as Halichoerus grypus by Nilsson (1847), Gray (1850), Gill (1866), Gray (1866), Scott (1873), Allen (1880), Turner (1912), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Riedman (1990), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Davis et al. (2004), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018) and Kienle and Berta (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1791 | Phoca grypus Fabricius |
| 1791 | Phoca grypus Fabricus |
| 1847 | Halichoerus grypus Nilsson p. 299 |
| 1850 | Halichoerus grypus Gray p. 30 |
| 1866 | Halichoerus grypus Gill p. 5 |
| 1866 | Halichoerus grypus Gray p. 34 |
| 1873 | Halichoerus grypus Scott p. 39 |
| 1880 | Halichoerus grypus Allen p. 689 |
| 1898 | Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus Trouessart p. 381 |
| 1904 | Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus Trouessart p. 284 |
| 1912 | Halichoerus grypus Turner p. 189 |
| 1947 | Halichoerus (Halichoerus) grypus Friant p. 6 |
| 1963 | Halichoerus grypus Scheffer and Rice p. 3 |
| 1980 | Halichoerus grypus Kurten and Anderson p. 206 |
| 1990 | Halichoerus grypus Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2 |
| 2001 | Halichoerus grypus Koretsky p. 85 |
| 2003 | Halichoerus grypus Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2004 | Halichoerus grypus Davis et al. p. 365 |
| 2014 | Halichoerus grypus Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2018 | Halichoerus grypus Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2019 | Halichoerus grypus 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.
Halichoerus grypus Fabricius 1791 [grey seal]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Gingerich 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (17 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | USA (South Carolina) | Halichoerus grypus (65405) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Virginia) | Halichoerus grypus (57705 57706 73485) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Sweden | Halichoerus grypus (81821 81823) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Canada (Quebec) | Halichoerus grypus (81691) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Halichoerus grypus (96706) | |
| Holocene | Netherlands | Halichoerus grypus (55533) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Quebec) | Halichoerus grypus (168678) | |
| Holocene | Spain | Halichoerus grypus (215735) | |
| Holocene | Estonia | Halichoerus grypus (195026) | |
| Holocene | Sweden (Goteborg) | Halichoerus grypus (90102) | |
| Holocene | United Kingdom | Halichoerus grypus (122112) | |
| Holocene | Sweden | Halichoerus grypus (90101 90103) | |
| Holocene | Germany | Halichoerus grypus (90104) |