| Acrophoca | |
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| A restoration of Acrophoca longirostris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Phocidae |
| Genus: | †Acrophoca Muizon, 1981 |
| Species: | †A. longirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| †Acrophoca longirostris Muizon, 1981 | |
Acrophoca is an extinct genus of pinniped whose fossils have been discovered in Peru and Chile. It is thought to have been the ancestor of the modern leopard seal.
Its fossils have been found alongside those of the marine sloth Thalassocnus and tusked cetacean Odobenocetops, as well as such as cormorants, gannets, and ancestors of bottlenose dolphins.
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