Noriphoca
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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. (2018) 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]
References
- ^ G. Guiscardi. 1870. Sopra una Foca fossile. Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche di Napoli 5(6):207
- ^ Leonard Dewaele; Olivier Lambert; Stephen Louwye (2018). "A critical revision of the fossil record, stratigraphy and diversity of the Neogene seal genus Monotherium (Carnivora, Phocidae)". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (5): 171669. doi:10.1098/rsos.171669.
