Piscophoca

Piscophoca; Temporal range: Late Miocene; ~11–6 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Piscophoca pacifica skull cast of a specimen from Peru. At the AMNH.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Clade:	Pinnipedia
Family:	Phocidae
Subfamily:	Monachinae
Genus:	†Piscophoca; Muizon, 1981
Species:	†P. pacifica
Binomial name
	†Piscophoca pacifica; Muizon, 1981

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Piscophoca is an extinct genus of pinniped. The genus was named after the fossiliferous Pisco Formation in Peru, where the holotype was found. Other fossils of the genus were found in the Bahía Inglesa Formation of the Caldera Basin in Chile.^[1]

References

^ Valenzuela-Toro, A. M.; Gutstein, C. S.; Varas-Malca, R. M.; Suarez, M. E.; Pyenson, N. D. (2013). "Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: New evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33: 216. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.710282.

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[1] Valenzuela-Toro, A. M.; Gutstein, C. S.; Varas-Malca, R. M.; Suarez, M. E.; Pyenson, N. D. (2013). "Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: New evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33: 216. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.710282.

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