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Superfamily Phocoidea Smirnov 1908 (pinniped)

Osteichthyes - Carnivora

PaleoDB taxon number: 53273

Synonym: Amphibiae Gray 1821 (taxon 95917)

Parent taxon: Pinnipedia according to A. Berta 2009

See also Berta 1994, Berta 2002, Deméré et al. 2003, Fulton and Strobeck 2010, Gray 1821, Koretsky 2001, Koretsky et al. 2015, Koretsky et al. 2014, Koretsky et al. 2012, Ling and Bryden 1992, McKenna and Bell 1997, Rice 1998, Riedman 1990 and Scheffer and Rice 1963

Sister taxa: Desmatophocidae, Odobenidae, Otarioidea, Palaeotaria, Panotariidae, Phocidae, Phocomorpha, Potamotherium, Squalodon modesta

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Environments: marine (13 collections), coastal (5), lagoonal (1), terrestrial (1), offshore shelf (1), shoreface (1)

Age range: 23.03 to 7.246 Ma

Distribution:

• Miocene of Japan (9 collections), Mexico (2), United States (15: Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington)

• Oligocene of United States (2: California, Washington)

Total: 28 collections including 30 occurrences