| Piscophoca Temporal range: Late Miocene ~ | |
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| Piscophoca pacifica skull | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Clade: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Phocidae |
| Subfamily: | Monachinae |
| Genus: | †Piscophoca Muizon, 1981 |
| Species: | †P. pacifica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Piscophoca pacifica Muizon, 1981 | |
Piscophoca is an extinct genus of pinniped. The genus was named after the fossiliferous Pisco Formation in Peru, where the holotype was found. Other fossils of the genus were found in the Bahía Inglesa Formation of the Caldera Basin in Chile.[1]
Piscophoca sp. skull
References
- ↑ Valenzuela-Toro, A. M.; Gutstein, C. S.; Varas-Malca, R. M.; Suarez, M. E.; Pyenson, N. D. (2013). "Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: New evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33: 216. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.710282.
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