PINNIPEDIA Illiger, 1811

Rule, James P. & Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., 2022, Pinniped (Mammalia: Carnivora) fossils from Black Rock, a new late Neogene vertebrate locality in Victoria, Australia, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 32) 25 (3), pp. 1-12 : 5

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26879/1235

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11106824

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DF87A1-E117-E502-FEB0-FB3BFEE7F911

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scientific name

PINNIPEDIA Illiger, 1811
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Suborder PINNIPEDIA Illiger, 1811 View in CoL View at ENA

Referred specimen. NMV P254178, an isolated phalanx collected by B.S.J. Francischelli in 2019 ( Figure 2 View FIGURE 2 ).

Diagnosis. An intermediate or proximal phalanx from the manus (from either digits II, III, or IV) of a pinniped, due to the straight medial and lateral surfaces, a distal end narrower than a proximal end, and a slightly concave ventral surface.

Description. The proximal end is rounded, and is missing the articular surface ( Figure 2 View FIGURE 2 G-J). The distal surface is trochleated ( Figure 2 View FIGURE 2 G-H), and larger medio-laterally than dorso-ventrally. The shaft is sub-circular in cross section. Due to the lack of diagnostic features beyond Pinnipedia , we are unable to make meaningful comparisons to other species.

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

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