Biology:Afrophoca

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Short description: Extinct genus of carnivores


Afrophoca
Temporal range: Burdigalian–Langhian
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Clade: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae
Genus: Afrophoca
Koretsky and Domning, 2014
Species:
A. libyca
Binomial name
Afrophoca libyca
Koretsky and Domning, 2014

Afrophoca is an extinct genus of earless seal from Miocene-age marine deposits in Libya.[1]

References

  1. I. A. Koretsky and D. P. Domning. 2014. One of the oldest seals (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the Old World. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):224-229.

Wikidata ☰ Q21344958 entry