†Pseudotaria muramotoi Kohno 2006 (walrus)
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Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Full reference: N. Kohno. 2006. A new Miocene odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan, and its implications for odobenid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(2):411-421
Belongs to Pseudotaria according to I. Magallanes et al. 2018
See also Berta 2018, Berta et al. 2018, Boessenecker and Churchill 2013 and Kohno 2006
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CBM-PV 382, a partial skull. Its type locality is Ichibangawa River, which is in a Tortonian marine sandstone in the Ichibangawa Formation of Japan.
Ecology: amphibious carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ichibangawa River
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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