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<emphasis bold="true" box="[174,252,1258,1284]" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Genus</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[258,394,1257,1284]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Van Beneden, P. J." box="[401,629,1258,1284]" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" pagination="1 - 88" refId="ref10746" refString="Van Beneden, P. J. Description des ossements fossiles des environs d'Anvers, 1. Pinnipedes ou amphitheriens // Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Annales. - 1877. - 1. - P. 1 - 88." type="book chapter" year="1877">Van Beneden, 1877</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Van Beneden, P. J." box="[174,242,1315,1337]" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" pagination="783 - 802" refId="ref10666" refString="Van Beneden, P. J. Les phoques fossiles du bassin d'Anvers // Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique - 1876 a. - 41. - P. 783 - 802." type="book chapter" year="1876">1876 a</bibRefCitation>
<taxonomicName authority="Van Beneden" authorityName="Van Beneden" authorityYear="1877" box="[253,507,1315,1337]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[253,358,1315,1336]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Van Beneden
</taxonomicName>
: 798 (nom. nud.); *1877
<taxonomicName authority="Van Beneden" authorityName="Van Beneden" authorityYear="1877" box="[773,1027,1315,1337]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[773,878,1315,1336]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Van Beneden
</taxonomicName>
: 6768; 1904
<taxonomicName authority="Trouessart" authorityName="Trouessart" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Phoca" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Platyphoca">
<emphasis box="[1174,1232,1315,1336]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Phoca</emphasis>
(
<emphasis box="[182,287,1341,1362]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
) Trouessart
</taxonomicName>
: 285; 1909
<taxonomicName authority="Dollo" authorityName="Dollo" box="[529,701,1341,1363]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[529,634,1341,1362]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Dollo
</taxonomicName>
: 118; 1922
<taxonomicName authority="Kellogg" authorityName="Kellogg" box="[819,1009,1341,1363]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[819,924,1341,1362]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Kellogg
</taxonomicName>
: 117; 1945
<taxonomicName authority="Simpson" authorityName="Simpson" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1127,1232,1341,1362]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Simpson
</taxonomicName>
: 122; 1947
<taxonomicName authority="Friant" authorityName="Friant" box="[380,642,1368,1390]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Phoca" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Platyphoca">
<emphasis box="[380,438,1368,1389]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Phoca</emphasis>
(
<emphasis box="[457,562,1368,1389]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
) Friant
</taxonomicName>
: 7, 10, 14; 1958
<taxonomicName authority="Misonne" authorityName="Misonne" box="[816,1019,1368,1390]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[816,921,1368,1389]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Misonne
</taxonomicName>
: 22; 1964
<taxonomicName authority="King" authorityName="King" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1127,1232,1368,1389]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
King
</taxonomicName>
: 131; 1977
<taxonomicName authority="Ray" authorityName="Ray" box="[333,484,1395,1417]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[333,438,1395,1416]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Ray
</taxonomicName>
: 94; 1983
<taxonomicName authority="Savage, Russell" authorityName="Savage, Russell" box="[582,841,1395,1417]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[582,687,1395,1416]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Savage, Russell
</taxonomicName>
: 294; 1992
<taxonomicName authority="Muizon" authorityName="Muizon" box="[951,1141,1395,1417]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[951,1056,1395,1416]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Muizon
</taxonomicName>
: 36; 1997
<taxonomicName authority="McKenna, Bell" authorityName="McKenna, Bell" box="[174,429,1421,1443]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[174,279,1421,1442]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
McKenna, Bell
</taxonomicName>
: 258; 2008
<taxonomicName authority="Koretsky, Ray" authorityName="Koretsky, Ray" box="[534,781,1421,1443]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[534,639,1421,1442]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca</emphasis>
Koretsky, Ray
</taxonomicName>
: 8485, 103105.
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T y p e s p e c i e s:
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<taxonomicName authority="Van Beneden, 1877" authorityName="Van Beneden" authorityYear="1877" box="[452,941,1476,1503]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="vulgaris">
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<emphasis box="[452,685,1476,1502]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Platyphoca vulgaris</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Van Beneden, P. J." box="[698,941,1476,1503]" pageId="7" pageNumber="426" pagination="1 - 88" refId="ref10746" refString="Van Beneden, P. J. Description des ossements fossiles des environs d'Anvers, 1. Pinnipedes ou amphitheriens // Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Annales. - 1877. - 1. - P. 1 - 88." type="book chapter" year="1877">Van Beneden, 1877</bibRefCitation>
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, by original monotypy.
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from
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(Scaldisian) deposits in the
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,
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.
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S t r a t i g r a p h i c a l r a n g e. The
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species is also known from the
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03D087B7D176FFCB68FF2E9BFD67FBAB:8EA6607AD176FFC46C762C75FB4CF9E9" box="[1063,1163,1540,1566]" country="United States of America" municipality="Yorktown Formation" name="Pliocene" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">Pliocene</location>
(5.0 5.8 ma)
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of the eastern
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. Herein, we introduce a new species from the late Miocene (early-middle Tortonian, 8.011.5 ma)
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and Skaerum MØlle, Jutland, western
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.
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R e f e r r e d m a t e r i a l. Humeri, 2nd phalanx, innominata, metatarsal IV, tibia, and humeri from the Antwerp area,
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, from western
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, and from the eastern
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(see
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).
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<paragraph blockId="7.[174,1233,1476,1855]" lastBlockId="8.[166,1225,769,1116]" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="427" pageId="7" pageNumber="426">E m e n d e d d i a g n o s i s. Deltoid crest of humerus very short and terminating at less than 1/2 of length of bone; from base of lesser tubercle, along medial surface of bone, passes a crest that is only slightly shorter than deltoid crest; maximal enlargement of deltoid crest in its proximal part; intertubercular groove very shallow and not well defined; both epicondyles well developed and very wide; distal part of each epicondyle flat.</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="8.[166,583,173,195]" box="[166,583,173,195]" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">T a b l e 2. Measurements (mm) of humeri</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="8.[166,668,215,238]" box="[166,668,215,238]" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Т а б л и ц а 2. Измерения (мм) плечевых костей</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Van Beneden" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Gryphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="8" pageNumber="427" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="similis">Gryphoca similis</taxonomicName>
nordicum
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Van Beneden" authorityYear="1877" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="8" pageNumber="427" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="vulgaris">Platyphoca vulgaris</taxonomicName>
danica
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<th box="[177,560,426,448]" gridcol="0" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Height of trochlea</th>
<td box="[616,709,426,448]" gridcol="1" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">20.023.0</td>
<td box="[777,871,426,448]" gridcol="2" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">17.820.0</td>
<td box="[937,1030,426,448]" gridcol="3" gridrow="4" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">22.025.0</td>
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<th box="[177,560,479,501]" gridcol="0" gridrow="6" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Width of deltoid crest</th>
<td box="[616,709,479,501]" gridcol="1" gridrow="6" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">20.0</td>
<td box="[777,871,479,501]" gridcol="2" gridrow="6" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">24.929.0</td>
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<th box="[177,560,506,528]" gridcol="0" gridrow="7" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Width of distal epiphysis</th>
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<td box="[777,871,506,528]" gridcol="2" gridrow="7" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">35.541.5</td>
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<th box="[177,560,533,555]" gridcol="0" gridrow="8" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Width of proximal epiphysis</th>
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<td box="[777,871,533,555]" gridcol="2" gridrow="8" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">38.446.2</td>
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<th box="[177,560,559,581]" gridcol="0" gridrow="9" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Width of trochlea distally</th>
<td box="[616,709,559,581]" gridcol="1" gridrow="9" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">21.525.5</td>
<td box="[777,871,559,581]" gridcol="2" gridrow="9" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">18.022.4</td>
<td box="[937,1030,559,581]" gridcol="3" gridrow="9" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">28.029.5</td>
<td box="[1124,1175,559,581]" gridcol="4" gridrow="9" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">21.5</td>
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<th box="[177,560,586,608]" gridcol="0" gridrow="10" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Width of trochlea, frontal view</th>
<td box="[616,709,586,608]" gridcol="1" gridrow="10" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">24.530.0</td>
<td box="[777,871,586,608]" gridcol="2" gridrow="10" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">20.028.2</td>
<td box="[937,1030,586,608]" gridcol="3" gridrow="10" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">26.030.0</td>
<td box="[1124,1175,586,608]" gridcol="4" gridrow="10" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">20.3</td>
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<th box="[177,560,613,635]" gridcol="0" gridrow="11" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Transverse width of diaphysis</th>
<td box="[616,709,613,635]" gridcol="1" gridrow="11" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">12.020.0</td>
<td box="[777,871,613,635]" gridcol="2" gridrow="11" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">15.322.6</td>
<td box="[937,1030,613,635]" gridcol="3" gridrow="11" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">18.026.0</td>
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<th box="[177,560,639,661]" gridcol="0" gridrow="12" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Thickness of proximal epiphysis</th>
<td box="[616,709,639,661]" gridcol="1" gridrow="12" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">39.048.0</td>
<td box="[777,871,639,661]" gridcol="2" gridrow="12" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">41.2</td>
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<tr box="[177,1175,666,688]" gridrow="13" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">
<th box="[177,560,666,688]" gridcol="0" gridrow="13" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Thickness of medial condyle</th>
<td box="[616,709,666,688]" gridcol="1" gridrow="13" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">21.522.5</td>
<td box="[777,871,666,688]" gridcol="2" gridrow="13" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">17.519.0</td>
<td box="[937,1030,666,688]" gridcol="3" gridrow="13" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">27.028.0</td>
<td box="[1124,1175,666,688]" gridcol="4" gridrow="13" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">22.6</td>
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<tr box="[177,1175,693,715]" gridrow="14" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">
<th box="[177,560,693,715]" gridcol="0" gridrow="14" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Thickness of lateral condyle</th>
<td box="[616,709,693,715]" gridcol="1" gridrow="14" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">19.523.0</td>
<td box="[777,871,693,715]" gridcol="2" gridrow="14" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">20.125.6</td>
<td box="[937,1030,693,715]" gridcol="3" gridrow="14" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">26.028.0</td>
<td box="[1124,1175,693,715]" gridcol="4" gridrow="14" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">24.0</td>
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<th box="[177,560,719,741]" gridcol="0" gridrow="15" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Diameter of diaphysis with deltoid crest</th>
<td box="[616,709,719,741]" gridcol="1" gridrow="15" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">30.040.0</td>
<td box="[777,871,719,741]" gridcol="2" gridrow="15" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">29.031.0</td>
<td box="[937,1030,719,741]" gridcol="3" gridrow="15" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">42.044.5</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="8.[166,1225,769,1116]" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">
D i s c u s s i o n.
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<emphasis box="[406,635,833,859]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Platyphoca vulgaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(pl. 3,
<emphasis box="[725,804,833,859]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">1A1B</emphasis>
) was originally mentioned by
<bibRefCitation author="Van Beneden, P. J." pageId="8" pageNumber="427" pagination="783 - 802" refId="ref10666" refString="Van Beneden, P. J. Les phoques fossiles du bassin d'Anvers // Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique - 1876 a. - 41. - P. 783 - 802." type="book chapter" year="1876">Van Beneden (1876 a)</bibRefCitation>
, who considered it to be very close to the Recent
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Erxleben" baseAuthorityYear="1777" box="[979,1218,865,891]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Erignathus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="8" pageNumber="427" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="barbatus">
<emphasis box="[979,1218,865,891]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Erignathus barbatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The size of the humerus approaches that of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Gill" authorityYear="1866" box="[672,799,897,923]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Erignathus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="8" pageNumber="427" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[672,799,897,923]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Erignathus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
more closely than any other phocid. This poorly known, obscure, but distinctive species was described on the basis of only a few bones of the postcranial skeleton.
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<emphasis box="[620,742,961,987]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">P. vulgaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was a very large animal, perhaps similar in size to the modern species
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Erxleben" baseAuthorityYear="1777" box="[510,735,993,1019]" class="Phaeophyceae" family="Sargassaceae" genus="Cystophora" kingdom="Chromista" order="Fucales" pageId="8" pageNumber="427" phylum="Ochrophyta" rank="species" species="cristata">
<emphasis box="[510,735,993,1019]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Cystophora cristata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. This intriguing species has been virtually ignored in the literature except for a few comprehensive works, where
<taxonomicName authorityName="Van Beneden" authorityYear="1877" box="[998,1224,1025,1051]" class="Mammalia" family="Phocidae" genus="Platyphoca" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="8" pageNumber="427" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="vulgaris">
<emphasis box="[998,1224,1025,1051]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="427">Platyphoca vulgaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is listed among species from the Pliocene of Europe (e. g.
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;
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;
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Muizon de, C. &amp; Eds R. &amp; Duguy, D." box="[493,660,1089,1116]" pageId="8" pageNumber="427" pagination="34 - 41" refId="ref10093" refString="Muizon de, C. Palaontologie // Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas 6. Meeressauger 2. Robben-Pinnipedia / Eds R. Duguy, D. Robineau. - Wiesbaden: AULA - Verlag, 1992. - P. 34 - 41." type="book chapter" year="1992">Muizon, 1992</bibRefCitation>
).
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