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Preliminary phylogenetics and biogeographic history of the Pliocene seal, Homiphoca capensis from Langebaanweg, South Africa

Romala GovenderNatural History Department, Iziko Museums of South Africa, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8001, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 25-39 | Published online: 16 Dec 2014

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Azizah B. Hafed, John R. Nance, Irina A. Koretsky & Sulman J. Rahmat. (2023) New seal mandibles belonging to the subfamilies Monachinae and Phocinae discovered in the Neogene of North Carolina (USA). Historical Biology 35:5, pages 705-720.
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R. Govender. (2021) Early Pliocene fossil cetaceans from Hondeklip Bay, Namaqualand, South Africa. Historical Biology 33:4, pages 574-593.
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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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Sulman Rahmat, Fernando Muñiz, Antonio Toscano, Raúl Esperante & Irina Koretsky. (2020) First European record of Homiphoca (Phocidae: Monachinae: Lobodontini) and its bearing on the paleobiogeography of the genus. Historical Biology 32:4, pages 561-569.
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Romala Govender. (2018) Extension of the geographic range of Homiphoca into Northern Cape Province, South Africa, with comments on the possible feeding strategies used by Homiphoca . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38:3.
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Romala Govender, Michelangelo Bisconti & Anusuya Chinsamy. (2016) A late Miocene–early Pliocene baleen whale assemblage from Langebaanweg, west coast of South Africa (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti). Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 40:4, pages 542-555.
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Leonard Dewaele & Christian de Muizon. (2024) A new monachine seal (Monachinae, Phocidae, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Cerro La Bruja (Ica department, Peru). Geodiversitas 46:3.
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Myra Beth Doughty, Ryan T. Tucker, Romala Govender & Graham Avery. (2023) The contribution of abiotic markers in interpreting the taphonomic weathering of Homiphoca long-bones from Langebaanweg, South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 206, pages 105022.
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Romala Govender & Felix G. Marx. (2023) New cetacean fossils from the late Cenozoic of South Africa. Frontiers in Earth Science 10.
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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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James P. Rule, Felix G. Marx, Alistair R. Evans, Erich M.G. Fitzgerald & Justin W. Adams. (2022) True seals achieved global distribution by breaking Bergmann's rule. Evolution 76:6, pages 1260-1286.
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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 .
Sebastián Echarri, Damián E. PerezMarcelo Miñana & Sergio O. Lucero. (2021) New Record of a Phocid (Mammalia, Carnivora, Phocidae) in the Late Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 58:4.
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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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Alberto Valenciano & Romala Govender. (2020) New insights into the giant mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene). PeerJ 8, pages e9221.
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Matthew J. Mason, Léa M. D. Wenger, Øyvind Hammer & Arnoldus S. Blix. (2020) Structure and function of respiratory turbinates in phocid seals. Polar Biology 43:2, pages 157-173.
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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. (2018) A critical revision of the fossil record, stratigraphy and diversity of the Neogene seal genus Monotherium (Carnivora, Phocidae) . Royal Society Open Science 5:5, pages 171669.
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Leonard Dewaele, Carlos Mauricio Peredo, Pjotr Meyvisch & Stephen Louwye. (2018) Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species. Royal Society Open Science 5:3, pages 172437.
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Annalisa Berta. 2018. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals 712 722 .
Carlos Vildoso. 2017. Tropical Pinnipeds. Tropical Pinnipeds 12 21 .
Romala Govender. (2015) Shark–Cetacean trophic interaction, Duinefontein, Koeberg, (5 Ma), South Africa. South African Journal of Science 111:11/12, pages 7.
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