Preliminary phylogenetics and biogeographic history of the Pliocene seal, Homiphoca capensis from Langebaanweg, South Africa
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Summary
A phylogenetic analysis of the Langebaanweg seals was undertaken to better understand their relationships and island hopping is proposed as a means for phocid seal migration to South Africa.
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- article
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- 2015-01-02
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- 25
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Keywords
Monophyly, Clade, Fur seal, Biology, Zoology
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- Shark-Cetacean trophic interaction, Duinefontein, Koeberg, (5 Ma), South Africa
- A late Miocene–early Pliocene baleen whale assemblage from Langebaanweg, west coast of South Africa (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)
- Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species
- A critical revision of the fossil record, stratigraphy and diversity of the Neogene seal genus Monotherium (Carnivora, Phocidae)
- Extension of the Geographic Range of Homiphoca into Northern Cape Province, South Africa, with Comments on the Possible Feeding Strategies Used by Homiphoca
- Sedimentology and taphonomy of cenozoic vertebrates from Langebaanweg, Cape West Coast, South Africa; with palaeoecological interpretations
- First European record of Homiphoca (Phocidae: Monachinae: Lobodontini) and its bearing on the paleobiogeography of the genus
- Early Pliocene fossil cetaceans from Hondeklip Bay, Namaqualand, South Africa
- Structure and function of respiratory turbinates in phocid seals
- New insights into the giant mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene)
- Colonization of the ancient southern oceans by small-sized Phocidae: new evidence from Australia
- New Fossils of Mellivora benfieldi (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg, ‘E’ Quarry (South Africa, Early Pliocene): Re-Evaluation of the African Neogene Mellivorines
- A new large-bodied Pliocene seal with unusual cutting teeth
- First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals
- Early monk seals (Monachinae: Monachini) from the late Miocene–early Pliocene of Australia
- Eucyon khoikhoi sp. nov. (Carnivora: Canidae) from Langebaanweg ‘E’ Quarry (early Pliocene, South Africa): the most complete African canini from the Mio-Pliocene
- New Record of a Phocid (Mammalia, Carnivora, Phocidae) in the Late Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina
- True seals achieved global distribution by breaking Bergmann's rule
- New seal mandibles belonging to the subfamilies Monachinae and Phocinae discovered in the Neogene of North Carolina (USA)
- New Seal (Carnivora, Phocidae) Record from the Late Miocene–Pliocene of Guafo Island, Southern Chile
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