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Monotypic taxon: Superfamily Phocoidea Gray, 1821 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Carnivora

Subsequent positions

Ursida (Parvorder) Tedford, 1976

Original entries

Questionably †*Adelpharctos* (Genus) de Bonis, 1971
Questionably †*Allocyon* (Genus) Merriam, 1930
Questionably †*Drassonax* (Genus) Galbreath, 1953
Questionably †*Enaliarctos* (Genus) Mitchell & Tedford, 1973
Questionably †*Kolponomos* (Genus) Stirton, 1960
Questionably †*Pteronarctos* (Genus) Barnes, 1989

Subsequent entries

†*Amphicynodon* (Genus) Filhol, 1882
†*Nothocyon* (Genus) Matthew, 1899
*Otariidae* (Family) Gray, 1825
†*Pachycynodon* (Genus) Schlosser, 1887
†*Parictis* (Genus) Scott, 1893
*Phocidae* (Family) Gray, 1821
†*Plesiocyon* (Genus) Schlosser, 1887

Current position

Pinnipedia (Parvorder) Illiger, 1811

[implicit]

Alternative positions

*Pinnipedia* (Suborder) Illiger, 1811
*Ursida* (Parvorder) Tedford, 1976	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 252.

Historical positions

*Ursida* (Parvorder) Tedford, 1976	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 252.
*Pinnipedia* (Suborder) Illiger, 1811	Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	1f;13g;18s;14ss; ‡1s; †21g;2s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 20 Feb 2022	[1f;13g;18s;14ss; †21g]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[2f;18g; †53g]

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