''Piscophoca'' is an extinct genus of

pinniped Pinnipeds (pronounced ), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walru ...

. The genus was named after the fossiliferous

Pisco Formation The Pisco Formation is a geologic formation located in Peru, on the southern coastal desert of Ica, Peru, Ica and Arequipa. The approximately thick formation was deposited in the Pisco Basin, spanning an age from the Miocene, Middle Miocene up to ...

in Peru, where the holotype was found. Other fossils of the genus were found in the

Bahía Inglesa Formation Caldera Basin ( es, Cuenca de Caldera) is a sedimentary basin located in the coast of northern Chile west of Copiapó. The basin has a fill of marine sediments of Late Cenozoic age. With a north-south extension of and an east-west width of the ...

of the Caldera Basin in

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

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Lobodontins Prehistoric carnivoran genera Miocene pinnipeds Pinnipeds of South America Miocene mammals of South America Neogene Peru Fossils of Peru Fossil taxa described in 1981 {{paleo-carnivora-stub