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Afrophoca

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Afrophoca
Temporal range: Burdigalian–Langhian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 was thought to be an extinct genus of earless seal from Miocene-age marine deposits in Libya.[1] However, it has been demonstrated by Pickford & Muizon, 2024, that the type and only known specimen is from a medium-sized anthracothere, Afromeryx zelteni Pickford, 1991.

References

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  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.