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Piscophoca pacifica

Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Taxonomy
Piscophoca pacifica was named by Muizon (1981). Its type specimen is SAS 564 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sud-Sacaco West (SAS) horizon, which is in a Messinian foreshore siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru. It is the type species of Pisciphoca.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1981Piscophoca pacifica Muizon p. 20 figs. Fig. 4; Plate 1, fig. 1-3
2001Piscophoca pacifica Koretsky p. 86
2003Piscophoca pacifica Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3
2015Piscophoca pacifica Berta et al. p. 3 figs. Table 1
2018Piscophoca pacifica Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 4
2019Piscophoca pacifica Kienle and Berta
2022Piscophoca pacifica Berta et al. p. 8 figs. Table 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
RankNameAuthor
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
PanpinnipediaWolsan et al. 2020
Pinnipedimorpha
Pinnipedia()
superfamilyPhocoideaSmirnov 1908
familyPhocidae()
subfamilyMonachinae
genusPiscophoca
speciespacifica

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.

Piscophoca pacifica Muizon 1981
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available