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Pliophoca

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Phocidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Mammalia

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Carnivores

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Similar
  
Piscophoca, Carnivores, Acrophoca, Imagotaria, Thalassoleon

Pliophoca is an extinct genus of earless seal in the family Phocidae.

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Fossil records

This genus is known in the fossil records from the Miocene to the Quaternary (age range: from 5.332 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata of Italy, Morocco, Spain. Egypt and United States.

Species

Species within this genus include:

  • Pliophoca etrusca Tavani 1941 †

    • This fossil species of seal, ancestor of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) was found only in the late Pliocene (Piacenzian) areas of Orciano and Volterra in Tuscany. It was a species endemic to the Mediterranean Sea.

    References

    Pliophoca Wikipedia
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