A late surviving Pliocene seal from high latitudes of the North Atlantic realm: the latest monachine seal on the southern margin of the North Sea

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Leonard Dewaele, Olivier Lambert, Stephen Louwye
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018
• Subjects: Mammalia; Phocidae; Monachinae; Pliocene; North Atlantic; North Sea; Medicine; R; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Antarctic; Arctic; Lefèvre; Pacific; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5734; https://doaj.org/article/3ca7a9a4a53d44968f4dcc84af810896

Background The family of true seals, the Phocidae, is subdivided into two subfamilies: the southern Monachinae, and the northern Phocinae, following the subfamilies’ current distribution: extant Monachinae are largely restricted to the (sub-)Antarctic and the eastern Pacific, with historical distrib...