Phocanella

Extinct genus of carnivores

Phocanella
Temporal range: Pliocene
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Clade: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae
Subfamily: Phocinae
Genus: Phocanella
van Beneden, 1876
Species

Phocanella is an extinct genus of earless seals from the early Pliocene of Belgium and the US Eastern Seaboard.

The type and only species of Phocanella is P. pumila. The second nominal Phocanella species, P. minor, is a synonym. Two additional taxa referred to the genus, P. couffoni and P. straeleni, are nomina dubia.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Van Beneden P-J. 1877. Description des ossements fossiles des environs d’Anvers, première partie. Pinnipèdes ou amphithériens. Annales du Musée Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 1:1–88.
  2. ^ I. A. Koretsky and A. M. M. Peters. 2008. Batavipusa (Carnivora, Phocidae, Phocinae): a new genus from the eastern shore of the North Atlantic Ocean (Miocene seals of the Netherlands, part II). Deinsea 12:53-62.
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