Mammalia - Carnivora - Desmatophocidae
Full reference: N. Kohno. 1996. Miocene pinniped Allodesmus (Mammalia: Carnivora); with special reference to the "Mito seal" from Ibaraki Prefecture, Central Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, New Series 181:388-404
Belongs to Allodesmus according to W. Tonomori et al. 2018
See also Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker and Churchill 2018 and Kohno 1996
Sister taxa: Allodesmus demerei, Allodesmus kernensis, Allodesmus packardi, Allodesmus sinanoensis, Allodesmus uraiporensis
Type specimen: NMJH N-001, a partial skeleton (right dorsal part of the cranium with right canine and second premolar). Its type locality is Mito, Mito Formation, which is in a Serravallian marine sandstone in the Mito Formation of Japan.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: found only at Mito, Mito Formation
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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