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. 2017 Feb 21;5:e3024. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3024

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Comparison of the humerus of (A) the walrus Odobenus rosmarus, (B) the extant monachine Leptonychotes weddellii, (C) the extinct monachine Acrophoca longirostris, the extinct phocines (D) Prophoca rousseaui and (E) Leptophoca proxima, and the extant phocine (F) the gray seal Halichoerus grypus. Prophoca rousseaui is humerus IRSNB-M274 and Leptophoca proxima is humerus IRSNB 1146-M279 described in this study. Leptophoca proxima mirrored left humerus. All other humeri in right lateral view. Images of L. weddellii and A. longirostris adapted from Valenzuela-Toro et al. (2015; Fig. 4).