Mammalia - Carnivora - Desmatophocidae
Alternative combination: Brachyallodesmus packardi
Full reference: L. G. Barnes. 1972. Miocene Desmatophocinae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from California. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 89:1-76
Belongs to Allodesmus according to W. Tonomori et al. 2018
See also Barnes 1972, Barnes 1989, Barnes 2008, Barnes and Hirota 1995, Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker and Churchill 2018, Deméré et al. 2003, Kohno 1996 and Repenning and Tedford 1977
Sister taxa: Allodesmus demerei, Allodesmus kernensis, Allodesmus naorai, Allodesmus sinanoensis, Allodesmus uraiporensis
Type specimen: CAS 4371A, a skull. Its type locality is Ladera Bridge, which is in a Langhian/Serravallian lagoonal sandstone/siltstone in the Vaqueros Formation of California.
Distribution: found only at Ladera Bridge
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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