Afrophoca
Appearance
Afrophoca Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Clade: | Pinnipedia |
Family: | Phocidae |
Genus: | †Afrophoca Koretsky and Domning, 2014 |
Species: | †A. libyca
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Binomial name | |
†Afrophoca libyca Koretsky and Domning, 2014
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Afrophoca was thought to be an extinct genus of earless seal from Miocene-age marine deposits in Libya.[1] However, it has been demonstrated by Pickford & Muizon, 2024, that the type and only known specimen is from a medium-sized anthracothere, Afromeryx zelteni Pickford, 1991.
References
[edit]- ^ I. A. Koretsky and D. P. Domning. 2014. One of the oldest seals (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the Old World. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):224-229.