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Published as part of Rule, James P, Adams, Justin W & Fitzgerald, Erich M G, 2021, Colonization of the ancient southern oceans by small-sized Phocidae: new evidence from Australia, pp. 1160 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191 (4) on page 1160, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa075, http://zenodo.org/record ...
Rule, James P +2 more
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A NEW SPECIES OF THE SUBFAMILY DEVINOPHOCINAE (CARNIVORA, PHOCIDAE) FROM THE CENTRAL PARATETHYS
Several excavations in Slovakia resulted in the finding and description of a new species of the extinct phocid subfamily Devinophocinae from the early Badenian, early Middle Miocene (16.26-14.89 Ma).
IRINA A. KORETSKY, SULMAN J. RAHMAT
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New Miocene Monachinae from the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland, USA)
AbstractThe Family Phocidae includes four subfamilies (Phocinae, Monachinae, Cystophorinae, and Devinophocinae) consisting of mediumto large-sized mammals that possess distinctive adaptations to semi-aquatic life. In the Miocene of the Chesapeake Group, only two subfamilies of the Family Phocidae were identified: Phocinae and Monachinae.
Rahmat, S. J. +3 more
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Despite a long history of phocid studies, no fossil members of the Subfamily Cystophorinae have ever been described. New fossil material from the Middle Sarmatian (11.2-12.3 Ma) in the Paratethyan Basin of Ukraine allows emended diagnoses and ...
IRINA A. KORETSKY, SULMAN J. RAHMAT
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Unique Short-Faced Miocene Seal Discovered in Grytsiv (Ukraine)
Numerous Miocene fossil terrestrial mammals have been discovered at the Gritsev locality of Ukraine, but this is the first record of a fossil marine mammal found at this site.
S. Rahmat, I. Koretsky
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Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of sediment samples associated with the lectotype specimen of Callophoca obscura, and one specimen that has formerly been assigned to C. obscura, but that is currently deemed Monachinae indet.
Dewaele, Leonard +3 more
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(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Koretsky, Irina A, Grigorescu, Dan
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Oldest record of monk seals from the North Pacific and biogeographic implications [PDF]
Jorge Velez-Juarbe +1 more
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Taxonomic implications of morphometric analysis of earless seal limb bones [PDF]
Fossil Phocidae (earless seals) are mostly known from isolated postcranial material, forcing researchers to rely upon humeri and femora for the diagnosis of taxa and reconstruction of phylogeny.
Morgan Churchill, Mark D. Uhen
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Subfamily MONACHINAE Gray, 1869 Referred specimen. NMV P254995, a fragmentary right mandible collected by B.S.J. Francischelli in 2019 (Figure 2). Diagnosis. A fragmentary right mandible based on the position of the masseteric fossa. Referred to Pinnipedia based on a transversely flattened mandibular body, and a coronoid crest that does not ascend ...
Rule, James P., Fitzgerald, Erich M. G.
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