Aim To better understand the historical biogeography of the true seals, Phocidae, by
combining nuclear DNA (nDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in a divergence time …

Living true seals (phocids) are the most widely dispersed semi-aquatic marine mammals,
and comprise geographically separate northern (phocine) and southern (monachine) …

The newly discovered Upper Miocene to Upper Pliocene San Gregorio assemblage of the
Purisima Formation in Central California has yielded a diverse collection of 34 marine …

Here we describe a new phocid, Hadrokirus martini gen. et sp. nov., from the Pisco
Formation, in the locality of Sud-Sacaco (Late Miocene to Early Pliocene of Peru). This taxon …

The 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 …

An overview of the upper Oligocene-upper Miocene marine sediments outcropping in the
Maltese Islands provides a detailed stratigraphical setting of several marine mammal …

Despite a long history of phocid studies, no fossil members of the Subfamily Cystophorinae
have ever been described. New fossil material from the Middle Sarmatian (11.2-12.3 Ma) in …

Background Prophoca and Leptophoca represent the oldest known genera of phocine
seals, dating from the latest early to middle Miocene. Originally, Prophoca rousseaui and …

Koretsky, IA, Barnes, LG, Rahmat, SJ—The origin of pinnipeds has been a contentious
issue, with opposite sides debating monophyly or diphyly. This review uses evidence from …

While the diversity of 'southern seals', or Monachinae, in the North Atlantic realm is currently
limited to the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, their diversity was much …