Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Full reference: R. Kellogg. 1931. Pelagic mammals of the Temblor Formation of the Kern River region, California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Science 19(12):217-397
Parent taxon: Odobenidae according to J. Velez-Juarbe 2018
See also Barnes 1988, Barnes 1989, Barnes 2008, Berta 2002, Berta 2009, Berta 2017, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker and Churchill 2013, Carroll 1988, Deméré 1994, Deméré et al. 2003, Horikawa 1995, Kellogg 1931, Kohno 2006, Kohno et al. 1995, Magallanes et al. 2018, McKenna and Bell 1997, Repenning and Tedford 1977, Rice 1998, Sepkoski 2002 and Tonomori 2022
Sister taxa: Archaeodobenus, Imagotaria, Kamtschatarctos, Nanodobenus, Neodobenia, Odobeninae, Osodobenus, Pelagiarctos, Pontolis, Proneotherium, Prototaria, Pseudotaria, Titanotaria
Subtaxa: Neotherium mirum
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (1 collection), Mexico (3), United States (6: California)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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