Auroraphoca

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Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Parvorder:Pinnipedia
Auroraphoca
Temporal range: early Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Parvorder: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae
Subfamily: Monachinae
Genus: Auroraphoca
Dewaele, Peredo, Meyvisch, and Louwye, 2018
Species
  • A. atlantica Dewaele, Peredo, Meyvisch, and Louwye, 2018 (type species)

Auroraphoca is an extinct genus of earless seals from the early Pliocene of what is now the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.[1]

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