PaleoDB taxon number: 41332
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1825. An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe. Annals of Philosophy, new series 10:337-344
Parent taxon: Pinnipedia according to T. L. Fulton and C. Strobeck 2010
See also Barnes et al. 2006, Carroll 1988, Dubrovo 1984, Fay 1985, Mitchell 1961, Mitchell 1966, Riedman 1990, Scheffer and Rice 1963 and Tedford 1976
Sister taxa: Desmatophocidae, Odobenidae, Palaeotaria, Panotariidae, Phocidae, Phocoidea, Phocomorpha, Potamotherium, Squalodon modesta
Subtaxa: Imagotariinae, Otariidae
Ecology: scansorial insectivore
Environments: coastal (85 collections), marine (79), marginal marine (12), cave (6), shallow subtidal (4), terrestrial (4), estuary/bay (3), shoreface (3), open shallow subtidal (3), offshore (2), fissure fill (2), foreshore (2), paralic (2), offshore shelf (2), lagoonal (1), eolian (1), delta plain (1), offshore (1), deep subtidal ramp (1), dune (1), karst (1), mire/swamp (1), lacustrine - large (1), intrashelf/intraplatform reef (1)
Age range: 23.03 to 0.0 Ma
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antarctica (2 collections), Argentina (3), Australia (8), Belgium (3), Brazil (3), Canada (49: British Columbia, Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoudland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Yukon), Chile (3), Ecuador (1), France (1), Germany (3), Greenland (9), Iceland (9), India (1), Japan (28), Mexico (4), the Netherlands (13), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (11), North Atlantic (2), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (27), the United Kingdom (7), United States (141: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (4), United States (2: California, Georgia)
• Pliocene of Belgium (5), Chile (1), Japan (14), Mexico (1), Morocco (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (52: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Hemphillian of United States (4: California, Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), Japan (2), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Neogene of United States (4: California, Florida, Georgia)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Japan (13), Mexico (4), the Netherlands (2), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (52: California, Oregon)
• Oligocene of United States (1: California)
Total: 517 collections including 585 occurrences