Gryphoca

Gryphoca is an extinct genus of earless seals from Neogene marine deposits in the North Sea basin.

Gryphoca Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Caniformia
Parvorder:	Pinnipedia
Family:	Phocidae
Subfamily:	Phocinae
Genus:	†Gryphoca van Beneden, 1876
Species
G. similis van Beneden, 1876 (type species) G. nordica Koretsky, Rahmat, and Peters, 2014

Fossils

There are two recognized species of Gryphoca, G. similis and G. nordica. G. similis is known from Pliocene marine deposits in the Antwerp region of Belgium, while fossils of P. nordica have been found in the Tortonian-age Gram Formation in Denmark.^[1][2]