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The origin of elephant seals: implications of a fragmentary late Pliocene seal (Phocidae: Miroungini) from New Zealand

RW BoesseneckerDepartment of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA;Department of Geology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand;University of California Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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M ChurchillDepartment of Anatomy, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York, USAView further author information
Pages 544-550 | Received 26 Feb 2016, Accepted 07 Jun 2016, Published online: 14 Jul 2016

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James P. Rule, Justin W. Adams & Erich M. G. Fitzgerald. (2021) Early monk seals (Monachinae: Monachini) from the late Miocene–early Pliocene of Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19:6, pages 441-459.
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James P. Rule, David P. Hocking & Erich M. G. Fitzgerald. (2019) Pliocene monachine seal (Pinnipedia: Phocidae) from Australia constrains timing of pinniped turnover in the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39:6.
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Ana M. Valenzuela-ToroNicholas D. Pyenson. (2022) New Seal (Carnivora, Phocidae) Record from the Late Miocene–Pliocene of Guafo Island, Southern Chile. Ameghiniana 59:5.
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Annalisa Berta, Morgan Churchill & Robert W. Boessenecker. 2022. Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Phocids. Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Phocids 3 30 .
Bernard J. Le Boeuf. 2021. Elephant Seals. Elephant Seals.
James P. Rule, Justin W. Adams, Felix G. Marx, Alistair R. Evans, Alan J. D. Tennyson, R. Paul Scofield & Erich M. G. Fitzgerald. (2020) First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287:1938, pages 20202318.
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James P. Rule, Justin W. Adams, Douglass S. Rovinsky, David P. Hocking, Alistair R. Evans & Erich M. G. Fitzgerald. (2020) A new large-bodied Pliocene seal with unusual cutting teeth. Royal Society Open Science 7:11, pages 201591.
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María Soledad Leonardi, Stephany Virrueta HerreraAndrew SweetJavier Negrete & Kevin P. Johnson. (2019) Phylogenomic analysis of seal lice reveals codivergence with their hosts. Systematic Entomology 44:4, pages 699-708.
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Robert W Boessenecker & Morgan Churchill. (2018) The last of the desmatophocid seals: a new species of Allodesmus from the upper Miocene of Washington, USA, and a revision of the taxonomy of Desmatophocidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184:1, pages 211-235.
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Annalisa BertaMorgan Churchill & Robert W. Boessenecker. (2018) The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 46:1, pages 203-228.
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Leonard Dewaele, Olivier Lambert & Stephen Louwye. (2017) On Prophoca and Leptophoca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm: redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications . PeerJ 5, pages e3024.
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