Noriphoca

Noriphoca is an extinct genus of phocid belonging to the subfamily Monachinae. It is known from the late Oligocene to early Miocene of Italy.

Noriphoca Temporal range: late Oligocene–early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Parvorder:	Pinnipedia
Family:	Phocidae
Subfamily:	Monachinae
Genus:	†Noriphoca Dewaele, Lambert, and Louwye, 2018
Species
N. gaudini (type) (Guiscardi, 1870)

Species

The type species of Noriphoca, N. gaudini, was originally named Phoca gaudini on the basis of a skull from late Oligocene to earliest Miocene deposits in Chiento, Italy.^[1] Later authors referred it to either Monotherium, Pristiphoca, or the physeteroid genus Paleophoca.^{[citation needed]} However, it was later shown that P. gaudini cannot be referred to Monotherium as the latter was probably phocine and not monachine, and erected Noriphoca for the stem-monachine species P. gaudini.^[2]