A reevaluation of Pliophoca etrusca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Pliocene of Italy: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications

• Main Authors: Berta, Annalisa, Kienle, Sarah, Bianucci, Giovanni, Sorbi, Silvia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
• Subjects: Hematology; Science Policy; Inorganic Chemistry; FOS Chemical sciences; Biological Sciences; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Chemistry; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Evolutionary Biology; Lee Creek; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1294963; https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_reevaluation_of_i_Pliophoca_etrusca_i_Pinnipedia_Phocidae_from_the_Pliocene_of_Italy_phylogenetic_and_biogeographic_implications/1294963

ABSTRACTThe holotype of Pliophoca etrusca, a partial skeleton from the late Pliocene (Piacenzian) of central Italy, is redescribed. Referred material from the Pliocene of Italy, France, and Spain is compared with the holotype and reassigned to Pliophoca cf. P. etrusca . New dental and postcranial ma...