Phocanella

Phocanella
Temporal range: Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Clade: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae
Subfamily: Phocinae
Genus: Phocanella
van Beneden, 1877
Species

Phocanella is an extinct genus of earless seals from the early Pliocene of Belgium and the US Eastern Seaboard.

The type and only species of Phocanella is P. pumila. The second nominal Phocanella species, P. minor, is a synonym. Two additional taxa referred to the genus, P. couffoni and P. straeleni, are nomina dubia.


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