Noriphoca
{{Short description|Extinct genus of carnivores}}
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| taxon = Noriphoca
| authority = Dewaele, Lambert, and Louwye, 2018
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- N. gaudini (type)
(Guiscardi, 1870)
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Noriphoca is an extinct genus of phocid belonging to the subfamily Monachinae. It is known from the late Oligocene to early Miocene of Italy.
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.G. Guiscardi. 1870. Sopra una Foca fossile. Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche di Napoli 5(6):207 Later authors referred it to either Monotherium, Pristiphoca, or the physeteroid genus Paleophoca.{{cn|date=November 2022}} 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.{{cite journal |last1= Dewaele|first1= Leonard|last2= Lambert |first2= Oliver|last3= Louwye |first3= Stephen|date= 2018 |title= A critical revision of the fossil record, stratigraphy and diversity of the Neogene seal genus Monotherium (Carnivora, Phocidae)|journal= Royal Society Open Science |volume= 5 |issue= 5 |pages= 171669 |doi= 10.1098/rsos.171669|doi-access= free |pmc= 5990722 }}
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Category:Monotypic prehistoric carnivoran genera
Category:Chattian first appearances
Category:Aquitanian extinctions