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Taxonomy
Acrophoca was named by Muizon (1981).
It was assigned to Lobodontina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocidae by Carroll (1988), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009) and Canto et al. (2010); to Lobodontini by Muizon (1981), Muizon (1982), Koretsky (2001), Fulton and Strobeck (2010) and Berta et al. (2018); to Monachini by Kienle and Berta (2019); and to Monachinae by Rice (1998), Berta (2017), Berta (2018) and Valenzuela-Toro et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Lobodontina by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Phocidae by Carroll (1988), Berta (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Berta (2009) and Canto et al. (2010); to Lobodontini by Muizon (1981), Muizon (1982), Koretsky (2001), Fulton and Strobeck (2010) and Berta et al. (2018); to Monachini by Kienle and Berta (2019); and to Monachinae by Rice (1998), Berta (2017), Berta (2018) and Valenzuela-Toro et al. (2024).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1981 | Acrophoca Muizon p. 80 |
1982 | Acrophoca Muizon p. 205 figs. Table 1 |
1988 | Acrophoca Carroll |
1997 | Acrophoca McKenna and Bell p. 260 |
1998 | Acrophoca Rice |
2001 | Acrophoca Koretsky p. 87 |
2002 | Acrophoca Berta p. 923 |
2003 | Acrophoca Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
2009 | Acrophoca Berta p. 863 |
2010 | Acrophoca Canto et al. p. 22 |
2010 | Acrophoca Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. Figure 1 |
2017 | Acrophoca Berta p. 157 |
2018 | Acrophoca Berta p. 715 figs. Fig. 3C |
2018 | Acrophoca Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 2 |
2019 | Acrophoca Kienle and Berta |
2024 | Acrophoca Valenzuela-Toro et al. |
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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.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: f = family, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
References: Nowak 1991, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Gingerich 2003, Hendy et al. 2009 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Messinian or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (12 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Tortonian | Peru | A. longirostris (183918) | |
Tortonian | Chile | A. sp. (69730) | |
Tortonian | Peru (Arequipa) | A. sp. (45485) | |
Tortonian - Messinian | Chile | A. sp. (114474 154642) | |
Tortonian - Messinian | Chile (Atacama) | A. longirostris (99451) | |
Tortonian - Messinian | Peru | A. longirostris (46083) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Chile (Atacama) | A. sp. (80365) | |
Late/Upper Miocene | Chile | A. sp. (68782) A. sp., A. longirostris (100171) | |
Messinian | Peru (Caraveli) | A. sp. (46084) | |
Messinian | Peru | A. longirostris (13079) |