Mammalia - Carnivora - Phocidae

Alternative combination: Prophoca rousseaui

Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden. 1876. Les phoques fossiles du bassin d'Anvers. Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 41:783-803

Belongs to Monotherium according to I. Koretsky 2001

Sister taxa: Monotherium aberratum, Monotherium affine, Monotherium delognii, Monotherium gaudini, Monotherium maeotica, Monotherium wymani

Type specimen: Its type locality is Borsbeek, which is in a Tortonian coastal horizon in the Diest Formation of Belgium

Ecology: amphibious piscivore-carnivore