Piscophoca
Extinct genus of carnivores
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Piscophoca is an extinct genus of pinniped. The genus was named after the fossiliferous Pisco Formation in Peru, where the holotype was found. Other fossils of the genus were found in the Bahía Inglesa Formation of the Caldera Basin in Chile.[1]
| Piscophoca Temporal range: Late Miocene ~ | |
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| Piscophoca pacifica skull cast of a specimen from Peru. At the AMNH. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Parvorder: | Pinnipedia |
| Family: | Phocidae |
| Subfamily: | Monachinae |
| Genus: | †Piscophoca Muizon, 1981 |
| Species: | †P. pacifica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Piscophoca pacifica Muizon, 1981 | |
