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Noriphoca
Temporal range: late Oligocene–early Miocene
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Noriphoca

Dewaele, Lambert, and Louwye, in press
Species
  • N. gaudini (type)
    (Guiscardi, 1870)

Noriphoca is an extinct genus of phocid belonging to the subfamily Monachinae. It is known from the late Oligocene to early Miocene of Italy.

Species

The type species of Noriphoca, N. gaudini, was originally named Phoca gaudini on the basis of a skull from late Oligocene to earliest Miocene deposits in Chiento, Italy.[1] Later authors referred it to either Monotherium, Pristiphoca, or the physeteroid genus Paleophoca. However, Dewaele et al. (in press) clearly demonstrated that P. gaudini cannot be referred to Monotherium due to lack of overlap with the M. delognii type material, which they recognized as phocine and not monachine, and erected Noriphoca for P. gaudini.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ G. Guiscardi. 1870. Sopra una Foca fossile. Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche di Napoli 5(6):207
  2. ^ Dewaele, Leonard, Olivier Lambert & Stephen Louwye. In Press. A critical revision the fossil record, stratigraphy and diversity of the Neogene seal genus Monotherium (Carnivora, Phocidae). Royal Society Open Science.
  3. ^ https://www.gbif.org/species/9581593