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[[underline]] Described species of fossil sea-lions [[/underline]]

Fossil remains of sea-lions are extremely rare, and but few species have been established. [[insertion]] ^ The family [[underline]] Otarridae [[/underline]] is dismissed with but a word or two by Zittel (Paleontologie, vol. 4, Vertebrata, Mammalia) 1891 - 1893) and no mention of fossil forms in [[strikethrough]] Bedda [[/strikethrough]] such works as Beddards' Mammalia (1902). [[/insertion]] 
[[strikethrough]] Those [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ fossil species supposed to be referable to the family [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] which also [[/insertion]] made known prior to 1880 were reviewed by Dr. Allen in his History of North American Pinnipeds published in that year. One or two later ones are included in Troussant's Catalogue Mammalian, Supplement, 1904. The [[strikethrough]] list [[/strikethrough]] names of these species and the material on which they were based is as follows: * -

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* See Allen, J. A. - History of North American Pinnipeds, 1880, p. 21[[strikethrough]] 8 [[/strikethrough]]7  [[217]]

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1. [[underline]] Otaria? prisca [[/underline]] Gervais. 1850 - 55. [[underlined]] Zool. [[/underlined]] & Paleontol. franc., 1850 - 55, 276, pl. 8, fig. 8 Basedona tooth. "Van Beneden has since determined it to be referable to [[underline]] Squalodon. [[/underline]]" (Allen)

2. [[underline]] Otaria ondriana [[/underline]] Delfortrie. 1872.
[[insertion]] ^ Based on a [[strikethrough]] tooth [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ last upper molar [[/insertion]] from the bone breccia of Saint-Médard-en-Galle, near Bordeaux [[/insertion]]

3. [[underline]] Otaria leclercii [[/underline]] Delfortrie. 1872
Based on an outer lower incisor from the same locality.
Act. Sor. Linn. Bordeaux, 28, 182. livr. 4
Van Beneden contended that these teeth [[strikethrough]] probab [[/strikethrough]] belonged to his genus [[underline]] Palaeoptrea [[/underline]], a 

Transcription Notes:
Otaria leclercii Delfortrie 1872 [nomen dubium], Pierre-Joseph van Beneden Frank Evers Beddard