''Gryphoca'' is an extinct genus of

earless seal The earless seals, phocids or true seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia. All true seals are members of the family Phocidae (). They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from th ...

s from Neogene marine deposits in the North Sea basin.

Fossils

There are two recognized species of ''Gryphoca'', ''G. similis'' and ''G. nordica''. ''G. similis'' is known from Pliocene marine deposits in the Antwerp region of Belgium, while fossils of ''P. nordica'' have been found in the Tortonian-age Gram Formation in Denmark.I. Koretsky, S. Rahmat, and N. Peters (2014). "Rare late Miocene seal taxa (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Sea Basin". ''Vestnik zoologii'' 48(5):419–432.

References

Miocene pinnipeds Pliocene pinnipeds Phocines Prehistoric carnivoran genera Prehistoric pinnipeds of Europe Fossil taxa described in 1877 {{paleo-carnivora-stub