Platyphoca

Platyphoca
Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Superfamily: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae
Genus: †Platyphoca
van Beneden, 1877
Species
  • P. vulgaris van Beneden, 1877 (type species)
  • P. danica Koretsky, Rahmat, and Peters, 2014

Platyphoca is an extinct genus of earless seals from Neogene marine deposits in the North Sea basin.

Fossils

There are two recognized species of Platyphoca, P. vulgaris and P. danica. P. vulgaris is known from Pliocene marine deposits in the Antwerp region of Belgium, while fossils of P. danica have been found in the Tortonian-age Gram Formation in Denmark.[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. Koretsky, S. Rahmat, and N. Peters (2014). "Rare late Miocene seal taxa (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Sea Basin". Vestnik zoologii 48(5):419–432.
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