Praepusa

Praepusa
Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Clade: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae
Subfamily: Phocinae
Genus: Praepusa
Kretzoi, 1941
Species
  • P. pannonica Kretzoi, 1941 (type species)
  • P. boeska Koretsky, Peters, and Rahmat, 2015
  • P. magyaricus Koretsky, 2003
  • P. tarchankutica Antoniuk and Koretsky 1984
  • P. vindobonensis (Toula, 1897)

Praepusa is an extinct genus of earless seals from Neogene marine deposits in Europe. Five species, P. boeska, P. magyaricus, P. pannonica, P. tarchankutica and P. vindoboensis, are known.