Phocanella

Phocanella; Temporal range: Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Clade:	Pinnipediformes
Clade:	Pinnipedia
Family:	Phocidae
Subfamily:	Phocinae
Genus:	†Phocanella; van Beneden, 1877
Species
	P. pumila van Beneden, 1877 (type 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.[1][2]

References

Van Beneden P-J. 1877. Description des ossements fossiles des environs d’Anvers, premie `re partie. Pinnipe `des ou amphith�eriens. Annales du Mus�ee Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 1:1–88.
I. A. Koretsky and A. M. M. Peters. 2008. Batavipusa (Carnivora, Phocidae, Phocinae): a new genus from the eastern shore of the North Atlantic Ocean (Miocene seals of the Netherlands, part II). Deinsea 12:53-62.

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[1] Van Beneden P-J. 1877. Description des ossements fossiles des environs d’Anvers, premie `re partie. Pinnipe `des ou amphith�eriens. Annales du Mus�ee Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 1:1–88.

[2] I. A. Koretsky and A. M. M. Peters. 2008. Batavipusa (Carnivora, Phocidae, Phocinae): a new genus from the eastern shore of the North Atlantic Ocean (Miocene seals of the Netherlands, part II). Deinsea 12:53-62.