Pliophoca is an extinct genus of seal in the family Phocidae. This genus is known from late Pliocene (Piacenzian) marine deposits in northern Italy. Numerous...

Properiptychus Auroraphoca Virginiaphoca Messiphoca Mesotaria Callophoca Pliophoca Pontophoca Afrophoca Australophoca Swan-necked Seal (Acrophoca longirostris)...

group in the Southern Hemisphere. The only other fossil monk seal is Pliophoca etrusca, from the late Pliocene of Italy. The Hawaiian monk seal, as the...

Properiptychus Auroraphoca Virginiaphoca Messiphoca Mesotaria Callophoca Pliophoca Pontophoca Afrophoca Australophoca Swan-necked Seal (Acrophoca longirostris)...

reduced and distally located epicondylar crest. It is most similar to Pliophoca in the development of the anconeal process on the ulna, and because of...

Fossil Pliophoca skull...

†Messiphoca Monachus Neomonachus †Eomonachus †Noriphoca †Palmidophoca †Pliophoca †Pontophoca †Pristiphoca †Terranectes Miroungini †Callophoca Mirounga...

†Messiphoca Monachus Neomonachus †Eomonachus †Noriphoca †Palmidophoca †Pliophoca †Pontophoca †Pristiphoca †Terranectes Miroungini †Callophoca Mirounga...

Eschrichtioides, the dugong Metaxytherium subapenninum, and the monk seal Pliophoca. It also featured several sharks. The top predators were the orcinine...

†Messiphoca Monachus Neomonachus †Eomonachus †Noriphoca †Palmidophoca †Pliophoca †Pontophoca †Pristiphoca †Terranectes Miroungini †Callophoca Mirounga...