On Prophocaand Leptophoca(Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm: redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Dewaele, Leonard, Lambert, Olivier, Louwye, Stephen
• Other Authors: FWO Ph.D. Fellowship, FWO long stay travel grant
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ 2017
• Subjects: Beneden; Van Beneden; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3024; https://peerj.com/articles/3024.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/3024.xml; https://peerj.com/articles/3024.html

Background Prophoca and Leptophoca represent the oldest known genera of phocine seals, dating from the latest early to middle Miocene. Originally, Prophoca rousseaui and Prophoca proxima were described based on fragmentary remains from the Miocene of Belgium. However, several researchers contested t...