Platyphoca

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

Platyphoca Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene 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:	Phocinae
Genus:	†Platyphoca van Beneden, 1876
Species
P. vulgaris van Beneden, 1876 (type species) P. danica Koretsky, Rahmat, and Peters, 2014

Fossils

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