Pliophoca
Sign in to savePliophoca is an extinct genus of seal in the family Phocidae.
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It is catalogued under topics including Fossil taxa described in 1941, Monachinae and Monotypic prehistoric carnivoran genera.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- taxon name
- Pliophoca
- start time
- 3190000-00
- end time
- 2820000-00
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- Pliophoca
- taxon author citation
- Tavani, 1941
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Pliophoca is an extinct genus of seal in the family Phocidae.
==Fossil record== This genus is known from late Pliocene (Piacenzian) marine deposits in northern Italy. Numerous disassociated monachine remains from the Lee Creek Mine of North Carolina were assigned by Koretsky and Ray (2008), but Berta et al. (2015) rejected the referral and suggested that they may be distinct, which was confirmed by Dewaele et al. (2018), who erected Auroraphoca for two of the Lee Creek specimens that Koretsky and Ray (2008) assigned to Pliophoca.
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