| Description | Callophoca is an extinct genus of earless seals from the late Miocene to early Pliocene of Belgium and the US Eastern Seaboard.
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| Rank | genus |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Phocidae : Callophoca |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Scientific Name | Callophoca Van Beneden, 1876 |
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| Name Published In | Bull. Acad. Sci. Belgique, (2) 41 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Callophoca | subgenus | belongs to Phoca | stated without evidence | Trouessart, 1898 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Phocidae | stated without evidence | Palmer, 1904 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Phocinae | stated without evidence | Trouessart, 1904 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Phocidae | stated without evidence | Kellogg, 1922 | | Callophoca | subgenus | belongs to Phoca | stated without evidence | Friant, 1947 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Miroungini | stated without evidence | Muizon, 1981 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Phocidae | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachina | implied | McKenna and Bell, 1997 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachini | stated without evidence | Koretsky, 2001 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Carnivora | second hand | Sepkoski, 2002 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachinae | stated without evidence | Berta, 2002 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachini | stated without evidence | Koretsky and Grigorescu, 2002 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachinae | stated with evidence | Deméré et al., 2003 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachinae | stated without evidence | Koretsky and Ray, 2008 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachini | stated without evidence | Koretsky and Barnes, 2008 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachinae | stated with evidence | Berta, 2009 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Miroungini | stated without evidence | Fulton and Strobeck, 2010 | | Callophoca | genus | nomen dubium Monachinae | stated with evidence | Berta et al., 2015 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachinae | stated without evidence | Berta, 2017 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachinae | stated with evidence | Berta, 2018 | | Callophoca | genus | belongs to Monachinae | stated without evidence | Berta et al., 2018 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 13.8 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 3.60 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic |
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| Environment | marine (based on Pinnipedia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | piscivore, carnivore (based on Phocidae) |
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| Reproduction | viviparous (based on Pinnipedimorpha) |
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| Ontogeny | modification of parts (based on Pinnipedimorpha) |
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| Taphonomy | hydroxylapatite (based on Pinnipedimorpha) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | P. J. Van Beneden. 1876. Les phoques fossiles du bassin d'Anvers. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 41:783-803 |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callophoca |
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| Van Beneden P. J. Les phoques fossiles du bassin d'Anvers, Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 41, 783-803 |
| Trouessart E. L. , Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum 5, 665-1264 |
| Palmer T. S. (1904) Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals, North American Fauna 23, 1-984 |
| Trouessart E. L. (1904) , Catalogus Mammalium Tam Viventium Quam Fossilium, Fourth Edition, 1-929 |
| Kellogg R. (1922) Pinnipeds from Miocene and Pleistocene deposits of California, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 13 4, 23-132 |
| Friant M. (1947) Recherches sur le femur des phocidae, Bulletin du Musee royal d'Hisoire naturelle de Belgique 23 2, 1-51 |
| Muizon C. (1981) Les vertebres fossiles de la Formation Pisco (Perou). Premiere parti: Deux nouveaux Monachina (Phocidae, Mammalia) du Pliocene de Sud-Sacaco, Recherche sur les grandes civilisations Memoire 6, 1-150 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640 |
| Koretsky I. (2001) Morphology and systematics of Miocene Phocinae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Paratethys and the North Atlantic region, Geologica Hungarica Series Palaeontologica 54, 1-109 |
| Koretsky I. A., Grigorescu D. (2002) The fossil monk seal Pontophoca sarmatica (Alekseev) (Mammalia: Phocidae: Monachinae) from the Miocene of eastern Europe, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93, 149-162 |
| Koretsky I. A., Holec P. (2002) A primitive seal (Mammalia: Phocidae) from the early middle Miocene of central Paratethys, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93, 163-178 |
| Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560 |
| Deméré T. A., Berta A., et al (2003) Pinnipedimorph evolutionary biogeography, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279, 32-76 |
| Koretsky I. A., Barnes L. G. (2008) Phocidae, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 2, 542-556 |
| Koretsky I. A., Ray C. E. (2008) Phocidae of the Pliocene of eastern USA, Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14, 81-140 |
| Berta A. (2009) Pinniped Evolution, Encyclopedia of Marine Mammal Evolution, 861-868 |
| Fulton T. L., Strobeck C. (2010) Multiple fossil calibrations, nuclear loci and mitochondrial genomes provide new insight into biogeography and divergence timing for true seals (Phocidae, Pinnipedia), Journal of Biogeography 37, 814-829 |
| Amson E., Muizon C. (2013) A new durophagous phocid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the late Neogene of Peru and considerations on monachine seals phylogeny, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12 5, 523-548 doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.799610 |
| Berta A. (2017) , The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution, 1-198 |
| Berta A. (2018) Pinniped evolution, Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 712-722 |
| Berta A., Churchill M., et al (2018) The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 46, 203-228 doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010009 |
| Dewaele L., Peredo C. M., et al (2018) Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species, Royal Society Open Science 5 172437, 1-27 doi:10.1098/rsos.172437 |
| Albright L. B., Sanders A. E., et al (2019) Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57 2, 77-236 |
| Bull. Acad. Sci. Belgique, (2) 41 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
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