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Taxonomy
Phoca leonina was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type specimen is 1.
It was recombined as Otaria leonina by Gray (1850), Gray (1866); it was recombined as Macrorhinus leonina by Gill (1866); it was recombined as Macrorhinus leoninus by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Friant (1947); it was synonymized subjectively with Otaria byronia by Allen (1902); it was recombined as Mirounga leonina by Thomas (1911), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Riedman (1990), Ling and Bryden (1992), Rice (1998), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018), Kienle and Berta (2019).
It was recombined as Otaria leonina by Gray (1850), Gray (1866); it was recombined as Macrorhinus leonina by Gill (1866); it was recombined as Macrorhinus leoninus by Trouessart (1898), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Friant (1947); it was synonymized subjectively with Otaria byronia by Allen (1902); it was recombined as Mirounga leonina by Thomas (1911), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Riedman (1990), Ling and Bryden (1992), Rice (1998), Koretsky (2001), Deméré et al. (2003), Werdelin and Peigne (2010), Cullen et al. (2014), Berta et al. (2018), Kienle and Berta (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Phoca leonina Linnaeus p. 37 |
| 1850 | Otaria leonina Gray p. 47 |
| 1866 | Macrorhinus leonina Gill p. 6 |
| 1866 | Otaria leonina Gray p. 59 |
| 1898 | Macrorhinus leoninus Trouessart p. 377 |
| 1904 | Macrorhinus leoninus Trouessart p. 282 |
| 1911 | Mirounga leonina Thomas p. 133 |
| 1912 | Macrorhinus leoninus Turner p. 195 |
| 1947 | Macrorhinus leoninus Friant p. 5 |
| 1963 | Mirounga leonina Scheffer and Rice p. 4 |
| 1990 | Mirounga leonina Riedman p. 57 figs. Table 2 |
| 1992 | Mirounga leonina Ling and Bryden p. 1 |
| 1998 | Mirounga leonina Rice p. 47 |
| 2001 | Mirounga leonina Koretsky p. 87 |
| 2003 | Mirounga leonina Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2010 | Mirounga leonina Werdelin and Peigne p. 648 |
| 2014 | Mirounga leonina Cullen et al. p. 1471 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2018 | Mirounga leonina Berta et al. p. 210 figs. Fig. 4 |
| 2019 | Mirounga leonina Kienle and Berta |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Mirounga leonina Linnaeus 1758 [southern elephant seal]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Gingerich 2003, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Age range: base of the Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 2.58800 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (14 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | South Africa | Mirounga leonina (21695 21916 115205) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | South Africa | Mirounga leonina (21952) | |
| Holocene | Antarctica | Mirounga leonina (168613 177180 215322) | |
| Holocene | Argentina | Mirounga leonina (168614) | |
| Holocene | Chile | Mirounga leonina (168612) | |
| Holocene | South Africa | Mirounga leonina (21919 96973) | |
| Holocene | Namibia | Mirounga leonina (168611) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | Mirounga leonina (168615) | |
| Holocene | USA (Indiana) | Mirounga leonina (219792) |