| Source Data | |
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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Phocidae : Callophoca : Callophoca obscura |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Phocidae : Callophoca : Callophoca obscura |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Callophoca |
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| Scientific Name | Callophoca obscura (Van Beneden, 1876) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Callophoca obscura | species | belongs to Callophoca | stated without evidence | Vanden Broeck, 1874 | | Callophoca obscura | species | nomen dubium Monachinae | stated without evidence | Berta et al., 2015 | | Callophoca obscura | species | belongs to Callophoca | stated without evidence | Boessenecker and Churchill, 2016 | | Callophoca obscura | species | belongs to Callophoca | stated with evidence | Dewaele et al., 2018 | | Callophoca obscura | species | belongs to Callophoca | stated without evidence | Berta et al., 2018 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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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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| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1874 | Callophoca obscura Vanden Broeck p. 199 |
| 1874 | Mesotaria ambigua Vanden Broeck p. 199 |
| 1876 | Mesotaria ambigua Van Beneden p. 796 |
| 1876 | Callophoca obscura Van Beneden p. 798 |
| 1877 | Mesotaria ambigua Van Beneden |
| 1898 | Mesotaria ambigua Trouessart p. 377 |
| 1898 | Phoca (Callophoca) obscura Trouessart p. 388 |
| 1904 | Mesotaria ambigua Trouessart p. 282 |
| 1904 | Callophoca obscura Trouessart p. 287 |
| 1922 | Mesotaria ambigua Kellogg p. 109 |
| 1922 | Callophoca obscura Kellogg p. 124 |
| 1947 | Mesotaria ambigua Friant p. 5 |
| 1947 | Phoca (Callophoca) obscura Friant p. 7 |
| 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 |
| Vanden Broeck E. Esquisse Geologique & paleontologique des depots Pliocenes des Environs d'Anvers, Memoires de la Societe Malacologiques de Belgique 9, 87-374 |
| Trouessart E. L. , Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum 5, 665-1264 |
| 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 |
| Ray C. E. (1976) Phoca wymani and other Tertiary seals (Mammalia: Phocidae) described from the eastern seaboard of North America, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 28, 1-33 |
| Ray C. E. (1977) Geography of phocid evolution, Systematic Zoology 25 4, 391-406 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Boessenecker R. W., Churchill M. (2016) The origin of elephant seals: implications of a fragmentary late Pliocene seal (Phocidae: Miroungini) from New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics doi:10.1080/00288306.2016.1199437 |
| Rahmat S. J., Koretsky I. A., et al (2017) New Miocene Monachinae from the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland, USA), Vestnik zoologii 51 3, 221-242 doi:10.1515/vzoo-2017-0029 |
| 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 |
Callophoca obscura ✝
