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Taxonomy
Phocarctos was named by Gray (1844). It is extant.
It was reranked as Eumetopias (Phocarctos) by Trouessart (1898).
It was assigned to Arctocephalina by Gray (1871); to Eumetopias by Trouessart (1898); to Otariini by Mitchell (1968); to Otariinae by Muizon (1978), Berta and Deméré (1986), Barnes (1989), Riedman (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Berta (2002); to Otariidae by Allen (1880), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Berta (2009) and Berta (2018); and to Otariidae by Wilson and Reeder (2005), Berta et al. (2018) and Tsuzuku and Kohno (2020).
It was reranked as Eumetopias (Phocarctos) by Trouessart (1898).
It was assigned to Arctocephalina by Gray (1871); to Eumetopias by Trouessart (1898); to Otariini by Mitchell (1968); to Otariinae by Muizon (1978), Berta and Deméré (1986), Barnes (1989), Riedman (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997) and Berta (2002); to Otariidae by Allen (1880), Trouessart (1904), Palmer (1904), Repenning and Tedford (1977), Berta (2009) and Berta (2018); and to Otariidae by Wilson and Reeder (2005), Berta et al. (2018) and Tsuzuku and Kohno (2020).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1844 | Phocarctos Gray |
| 1871 | Phocarctos Gray p. 4 |
| 1880 | Phocarctos Allen p. 209 |
| 1898 | Eumetopias (Phocarctos) Trouessart p. 372 |
| 1904 | Phocarctos Palmer p. 533 |
| 1904 | Phocarctos Trouessart p. 280 |
| 1968 | Phocarctos Mitchell p. 1897 |
| 1977 | Phocarctos Repenning and Tedford p. 73 |
| 1978 | Phocarctos Muizon p. 184 |
| 1986 | Phocarctos Berta and Deméré p. 122 |
| 1989 | Phocarctos Barnes p. 23 |
| 1990 | Phocarctos Riedman p. 58 figs. Table 2 |
| 1997 | Phocarctos McKenna and Bell p. 254 |
| 2002 | Phocarctos Berta p. 923 |
| 2005 | Phocarctos Wilson and Reeder |
| 2009 | Phocarctos Berta p. 863 |
| 2018 | Phocarctos Berta p. 713 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2018 | Phocarctos Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2020 | Phocarctos Tsuzuku and Kohno p. 6 |
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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. Phocarctos Gray 1844 [New Zealand sea lion]
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Phocarctos hookeri Gray 1844 [New Zealand sea lion]
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Invalid names: Arctocephalus caninus Berry 1928 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Gingerich 2003, Hendy et al. 2009, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Calabrian to the top of the Holocene or 1.80000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calabrian | New Zealand | Phocarctos hookeri (60121) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand (North Island) | Arctocephalus caninus (87900) Phocarctos hookeri (201977 201979 201980 201981 201983) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | Phocarctos hookeri (60122 60123 60124 60125 162185 181846 201978) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand (South Island) | Phocarctos hookeri (162186 201982) |