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Taxonomy
Enaliarctos mealsi was named by Mitchell and Tedford (1973). Its type specimen is LACM 4321, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pyramid Hill Sand Member grit zone, which is in a Chattian marine sandstone in the Jewett Formation of California. It is the type species of Enaliarctos.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Enaliarctos mealsi Mitchell and Tedford p. 220 figs. Figures 5-18 |
| 1977 | Enaliarctos mealsi Repenning and Tedford p. 77 |
| 1979 | Enaliarctos mealsi Barnes p. 8 |
| 1989 | Enaliarctos mealsi Barnes p. 23 |
| 2003 | Enaliarctos mealsi Deméré et al. p. 49 figs. Fig. 3.3 |
| 2006 | Enaliarctos mealsi Koretsky and Barnes p. 144 |
| 2008 | Enaliarctos mealsi Barnes p. 527 |
| 2018 | Enaliarctos mealsi Berta et al. p. 205 figs. Fig. 1 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Enaliarctos mealsi Mitchell and Tedford 1973
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carreño and Cronin 1993, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Chattian to the top of the Aquitanian or 28.10000 to 20.44000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chattian | USA (California) | Enaliarctos mealsi (type locality: 11601) | |
| Aquitanian | USA (California) | Enaliarctos mealsi (58899) |