Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Full reference: N. Kohno, L. G. Barnes, and K. Hirota. 1995. Miocene fossil pinnipeds of the genera Prototaria and Neotherium (Carnivora; Otariidae; Imagotariinae) in the North Pacific Ocean: Evolution, relationships and distribution. The Island Arc 3:285-308
Belongs to Proneotherium according to I. Magallanes et al. 2018
See also Barnes 2008, Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker and Churchill 2013, Boessenecker and Churchill 2015, Deméré and Berta 2001, Deméré et al. 2003 and Kohno et al. 1995
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: USNM 205334, a skull. Its type locality is Iron Mountain Bed, which is in a Burdigalian marine sandstone in the Astoria Formation of Oregon.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: found only at Iron Mountain Bed
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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