''Phocanella'' 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 the early Pliocene of Belgium and the US Eastern Seaboard. The type and only species of ''Phocanella'' is ''P. pumila''. The second nominal ''Phocanella'' species, ''P. minor'', is a synonym. Two additional taxa referred to the genus, ''P. couffoni'' and ''P. straeleni'', are ''nomina dubia''.I. A. Koretsky and A. M. M. Peters. 2008. Batavipusa (Carnivora, Phocidae, Phocinae): a new genus from the eastern shore of the North Atlantic Ocean (Miocene seals of the Netherlands, part II). Deinsea 12:53-62.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q30693561 Pliocene pinnipeds Phocines Prehistoric carnivoran genera Prehistoric pinnipeds of Europe Fossil taxa described in 1877