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Taxonomy
Phoca maeotica was named by Nordmann (1860) [HMZ = Museum of Zoology, Helinki Finland (lectotype)
Museum of Zoology, Helinki Finland (lectotype)]. Its type specimen is N1815, a limb element (femur), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chisinau, which is in a Sarmatian marine horizon in Moldova.
It was recombined as Monatherium maeoticum by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Friant (1947); it was recombined as Monotherium maeoticum by Kellogg (1922), McLaren (1960) and Hendey (1972); it was recombined as Cryptophoca maeotica by Koretsky and Ray (1994), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Koretsky and Domning (2014) and Berta et al. (2022).
It was recombined as Monatherium maeoticum by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904) and Friant (1947); it was recombined as Monotherium maeoticum by Kellogg (1922), McLaren (1960) and Hendey (1972); it was recombined as Cryptophoca maeotica by Koretsky and Ray (1994), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Koretsky and Domning (2014) and Berta et al. (2022).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1860 | Phoca maeotica Nordmann pp. 320-321 |
1898 | Monatherium maeoticum Trouessart p. 380 |
1904 | Monatherium maeoticum Trouessart p. 283 |
1922 | Monotherium maeoticum Kellogg p. 130 |
1924 | Phoca maeotica Alekseev p. 202 |
1931 | Phoca maeotica Simionescu p. 187 |
1944 | Phoca maeotica Macarovici p. 137 |
1947 | Monatherium maeoticum Friant p. 6 |
1960 | Monotherium maeoticum McLaren p. 56 |
1972 | Monotherium maeoticum Hendey p. 100 |
1977 | Phoca maeotica Grigorescu p. 414 |
1994 | Cryptophoca maeotica Koretsky and Ray p. 21 |
2001 | Monotherium maeotica Koretsky p. 57 |
2001 | Cryptophoca maeotica Koretsky p. 87 |
2003 | Cryptophoca maeotica Deméré et al. p. 49 |
2006 | Cryptophoca maeotica Koretsky and Barnes p. 148 |
2014 | Cryptophoca maeotica Koretsky and Domning p. 227 |
2022 | Cryptophoca maeotica Berta et al. p. 6 figs. Table 1.1 |
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†Cryptophoca maeotica Nordmann 1860
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Invalid names: Monotherium maeotica Koretsky 2001 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available