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Desmatophocidae
Taxonomy
Desmatophocidae was named by Hay (1930).
It was assigned to Pinnipedia by Hay (1930); to Otarioidea by Repenning and Tedford (1977), Carroll (1988), Horikawa (1995), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Barnes (2008) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Phocoidea by Rice (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Rice (2009) and Boessenecker and Churchill (2015); and to Pinnipedia by Kohno (1996), Berta (2017), Tonomori et al. (2018), Velez-Juarbe (2018), Boessenecker and Churchill (2018), Berta (2018) and Tate-Jones et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Pinnipedia by Hay (1930); to Otarioidea by Repenning and Tedford (1977), Carroll (1988), Horikawa (1995), Koretsky and Barnes (2006), Barnes (2008) and Fulton and Strobeck (2010); to Phocoidea by Rice (2002), Deméré et al. (2003), Rice (2009) and Boessenecker and Churchill (2015); and to Pinnipedia by Kohno (1996), Berta (2017), Tonomori et al. (2018), Velez-Juarbe (2018), Boessenecker and Churchill (2018), Berta (2018) and Tate-Jones et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1930 | Desmatophocidae Hay p. 557 |
| 1977 | Desmatophocidae Repenning and Tedford p. 10 |
| 1988 | Desmatophocidae Carroll |
| 1995 | Desmatophocidae Horikawa p. 322 figs. Table 4 |
| 1996 | Desmatophocidae Kohno p. 389 |
| 2002 | Desmatophocidae Rice p. 231 figs. Table 1 |
| 2003 | Desmatophocidae Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2006 | Desmatophocidae Koretsky and Barnes p. 145 |
| 2008 | Desmatophocidae Barnes p. 530 |
| 2009 | Desmatophocidae Rice p. 235 figs. Table 1 |
| 2010 | Desmatophocidae Fulton and Strobeck p. 817 figs. FIgure 1 |
| 2015 | Desmatophocidae Boessenecker and Churchill p. 3 figs. Figure 2 |
| 2017 | Desmatophocidae Berta p. 157 |
| 2018 | Desmatophocidae Berta p. 713 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Desmatophocidae Boessenecker and Churchill |
| 2018 | Desmatophocidae Tonomori et al. p. 3 |
| 2018 | Desmatophocidae Velez-Juarbe p. 9 |
| 2020 | Desmatophocidae Tate-Jones et al. p. 2 |
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Fm. †Desmatophocidae Hay 1930
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Subfm. †Allodesminae Kellogg 1931
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G. †Allodesmus Kellogg 1922
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†Allodesmus demerei Boessenecker and Churchill 2018
†Allodesmus kernensis Kellogg 1922
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Invalid names: Allodesmus gracilis Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym], Allodesmus kelloggi Mitchell 1966 [synonym]
†Allodesmus naorai Kohno 1996
†Allodesmus packardi Barnes 1972
†Allodesmus sinanoensis Nagao 1941
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Invalid names: Allodesmus megallos Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym], Allodesmus sadoensis Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym]
†Allodesmus uraiporensis Tonomori et al. 2018
Invalid names: Brachyallodesmus Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym], Megagomphos Barnes and Hirota 1995 [synonym]
G. †Desmatophoca Condon 1906
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†Desmatophoca brachycephala Barnes 1987
†Desmatophoca oregonensis Condon 1906
Invalid names: Desmatophocinae Mitchell 1966 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available